Clarion 1969-09-02 Vol 45 No 01

Vol. XLIV—No. 1
Bethel College, St. Paul, Minn. Tuesday, September 2, 1969
1969
Navigators make Bethel their 'home port'
by Dave Greener
With most Bethel students at home
and none living on campus, the green
leaves of summer shade little more than
a few students with on-campus summer
jobs, a remnant of faculty and adminis-tration,
random visitors and occasional
groups borrowing Bethel facilities.
One of these such "groups" is the
Navigator Rangers. Their stay at Bethel
is longer and their interrelationship with
the campus more profound than most
other groups. Why have these young
collegiates, graduates and their advisors
decided to find their way to Bethel?
Navigator Rangers are a non-denom-inational
group of evangelical young
people of college age, most of them yet
undergraduates, who attempt, as in their
motto, "to know Christ and to make Him
known." At Bethel for ten weeks this
summer (until Labor Day) they are try-ing
to do just that as they learn by en-gaging
in workshops and classes and as
they go to the airport, shopping centers
and the University of Minnesota to put
their knowledge to practical use.
The Navigator Ranger program is but
one division of the Navigator program
which was originated by Dawson Trotman
of Long Beach, Calif., before World War
II. Working with Bible studies and
junior high boys, Trotman eventually ex-panded
the program to the armed forces,
particularly the Navy. During the war
the Navigator program continued to grow
as it spread, person to person, ship to
ship. After the war, several returning
Navigators entered the mission field or
the ministry. Some began or returned
to school, and this is how the program
expanded to the college level.
These young people at Bethel want as
a group to help prepare the way for fur-thering
their organization's activities in
this area in the fall. On an individual
basis, they came for advanced knowledge
and training in personal evangelism and
for experience to help make that know-ledge
practical.
The young adults (twenty boys and
ten girls) and their eight advisors are
living in Bethel housing during their
stay. They come from all over the country
—California, Iowa, Virginia, Missouri,
and Texas are represented. There's even
one student, from a Canadian school,
whose home is in Scotland.
The thirty young people nave passed
a training program held earlier this sum-mer
in Nebraska where about two hun-dred
Navigtor Rangers met at two camps.
According to Chuck Hunt, their leader
and N.R. representative at Mankato State
College, "These surviving members are
the keener students of the first pro-gram."
Navigator Rangers are earning their
food and shelter at the college by work-ing
for the school during the mornings.
Apparently their performance in this
area is more than adequate in the opin-ion
of Glen Hayne, Bethel's Superinten-dent
of Buildings and Grounds. Hayne
reports that they have even devised me-thods
with which they can, for the bene-fit
of the school, perform their jobs more
rapidly.
Eric Borgeson, Bethel's f a v o r i t e
groundsman and flower-tender, heartily
agrees. "They're a fine group of young
people to work with—and they really
make sure I'm saved," he commented
enthusiastically.
After this morning activity, their af-ternoons
and evenings are spent in learn-ing
witnessing. Thus far, afternoon sem-inars
have included such topics as "How
Do You Clinch a Decision?," "Immediate
Follow-up," "Long-Range Follow-up,"
"How to Present Scripture Memory,"
"How to Lead in Evangelical Bible Study,"
and "How to Communicate." Evening
classes have included talks by such peo-ple
as Reverend Mickelson of Bethel
Seminary and others concerning such
topics as the 1st Book of Romans, Church
history, and revivals.
(see cover photo)
Witnessing too, is normally a part of
the daily schedule. The Navigator Ran-gers
emphasize man-to-man ministry.
And, as member Denny Woods of Iowa
State says, "If we merely keep adding
converts, we will never beat the popu-lation.
We want things to multiply and
spread. We would like to try for a
geometric progression."
Arrangements have been made for
Christian Businessmen in town to clq
follow-up work. So far seventy-five peo-ple
have accepted Christ. And, according
to leader Hunt, objectives of developing
the heart, vision, and know-how in get-ting
the gospel to the world and pre-paring
for the same in any follow-up are
being met.
A successful program? Yes, according
to its leader. But just why did some
young adults decide to join it? After all,
perhaps some summer fun is being lost
and certainly summer money is not be-ing
earned.
Lenny Spense, a student at North Da-kota
State University, and Carrie Bra-num,
a college graduate teaching at
Standish Elementary School in Minneap-olis,
had answers for that question. Ac-cording
to Lenny, "I feel it was God's
will because He supplied finances for
the coming school year and also elimi-nated
my job committment." As for Car-rie,
"I know God wants me to be a wit-ness
for Him. All I've needed is the ex-perience
and know-how. That's why God
has used this program in my life."
Fellow students,
As classes begin again, I, as Student Association President, would
like to welcome all students to campus, particularly those of you who
are new.
Perhaps you've already found out that Bethel is not what you
expected. To my knowledge, Bethel offers more freedom than any
other Christian school, particularly freedom of thought.
This freedom has its negative side as well. You have the freedom
to not know your faculty as personal fr'ends, the freedom to remain
close-minded on any subject you choose, the freedom to not participate,
the freedom, in fact, to miss nearly all of the resources, 'personal and
otherwise, available at Bethel.
From another angle, Bethel is only as Christian as its students
(and its students only as Christian as they honestly wish to be).
The initiative is yours al2d mine: personally, I wouldn't have it
any other way.
Speaking, then, for both myself and Rick Berggren (as Vice-Presi-dent,
he is temporarily president of the freshman class), we welcome
you to Bethel and hope -- really! that we can meet each of you
individually.
Peace,
Dave Shupe
Student Association President
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guest editorial
Keeping the wonder
by Dr. Edwin L. Groenhoff
assoc. prof. of education
At 9:56 P.M., July 20, 1969, I was sitting, like so many others throughout the
world, before a T.V. screen. The room was the chapel of the camp where
was speaking, and television sets had been brought in so that the campers could
witness the moon walk.
When Armstrong reached the bottom of the ladder I glanced around the
room to see the reactions of the high schoolers. There were those, of course,
who were intently watching every move made by the astronauts. They cheered
when the LEM touched down, and laughed and slapped each other on the back
when Armstrong set his foot on lunar soil.
But there were others. Some couples were sitting in the shadows oblivious, not
only to the lunar walk, but to everyone around them. Others were staring blankly
at the screen with no visible emotion. Some were talking and exchanging quibs
with their neighbors, and in the distance I could hear others playing ping•pong,
and shuffleboard.
In the school year before us many new exciting wonders will be communicated
to us. Some will come through reading, others through interaction with a professor,
and still others will come in some creative moment of our own. Judging from past
experience, our reactions to these wonders will be similar to those of my teen-age
friends at camp.
There will be those this year who will become so involved and excited over
their new found knowledge that every day will be a new and exciting experience.
For others this year will provide only another social experience in which there will
be opportunity to laugh, play, and love. And there will be still others who will
never get involved. There will be "outside playing" while all the excitement is
going on inside.
And the same will be true in our Christian experience here at Bethel. The
wonders of Calvary come to us daily in chapel, in the classroom, and in our
own private devotions. The "greatest story ever told" will continue to elicit love,
wonder, and amazement from some of us. Others will look upon these experinces
as simply routine — something to be endured. Still others will never get with
it spiritually. They will be "outside playing" all the time.
Whether it is a new bit of knowledge, or another look at the wonders of
the God who loved us, part of the joy of living comes in retaining the
warm excitement of it all. What we get out of this year, intellectually and
spiritually, will largely be determined by our ability to retain the wonder of
it all. It is our God "which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and
wonders without number." (Job 9:10).
CAMPUS PROZAIESS
What's going on at the Seminary Campus this
summer (construction pictured above is from last May).
What's the word on College relocation to Arden Hills?
What's the story at Bethel's "old" campus? For the
answer to these questions plus other happenings and
hopes of the summer, see "A Tale of Three Campuses"
on p. 11.
Twin Cities host
`U.S. Congress
On Evangelism'
Concurrent with Bethel's Welcome
Week this year is the U. S. Congress on
Evangelism in Minneapolis. The Con-gress,
which will be an extensive view
of "The Church in Action" featured in
"How-to-do it" groups, is designed to
demonstrate new ideas and methods in
evangelism.
The first such Congress was held in
Berlin in November 1966. Since then
Congresses have been conducted in Afri-ca,
Australia and other parts of Europe
with the most recent in Singapore.
According to national chairman, Dr.
Oswald C. J. Hoffmann of St. Louis, Mo.,
the goal of the Congress "is to send the
pastors, laymen and evangelists back
to their parishes and fields of service
loaded with an unlimited number of new
ideas and methods on how to get the
job done."
Sponsors of the Congress expect an
attendance of eight thousand pastors,
laymen, evangelists and denominational
executives. Representatives from more
than one hundred denominations have
been invited.
Sessions, which will be held in the
Minneapolis Auditorium and other loca-tions
within walking distance, include
four worshop categories these being la-boratories,
training classes, practicums
and symposia.
The general program resume' is as
follows. The Congress officially convenes
Monday, September 8th at 7:30 P.M.
with Dr. Billy Graham presiding and
extending the welcome and Dr. Oswald
C. J. Hoffmann giving the keynote ad-dress.
September 9th the evening program
includes a witness by athletes, the Kins-folk
sings and an address by Evangelist
Tom Skinner. Wednesday the evening
address will be given by Keith Miller.
Thursday's evenhg, session includes a
dramatic black light presentation "Blow-in'
in the Wind", the New Pace Singers
and an address by Evangelist Ford Phil-pot.
Friday night which is youth night,
the New Hope Singers will be present
and Dr. Myron Augsburger will address
the assembly. The Congress will conclude
Saturday, September 13th in a Public
Evangelistic Rally at the Sports Center
and an address by Dr. Billy Graham.
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REGISTRATION CALENDAR
Wednesday, Sept. 3
8:00 a.m. Orientation Conference for
all New Students—Room 106
Administration Building
9:00 a.m. Registration for All new stu-dents
begins—Gymnasium
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8:30 a.m. Registration for returning stu-dents
whose last names begin
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Bethel Forum
May 26, 1969
To the Editor:
Just wanted you to know how much
I enjoyed the last issue of the Clarion.
It must have entailed a tremendous
amount of work! The format is exciting.
Thank you.
Junet Runbeck
Chairman of the
Education Dep't.
(Editor's note: Thank you for noticing!
Actually, the "Reflections 1968-69" is-sue
and this "Summer Spectrum" issue
were experiments in time and financing.
It has not been definitely decided
whether the new format will be perma-nently
adopted.)
EDITORS NEEDED—Desperately!!
The Communications Board is look-ing
for an editor for this year's Spire,
as well as an editor for this semes-ter's
CLARION. Students interested
in the positions should contact Stan-ley
Anderson, chairman of the de-partment
of philosophy.
THE CLARION
Published weekly during the academic year,
except during vacation and examination periods,
the students of Bethel Collee, St.
Minn. 55101. Subscription rate $4 per year.
Editor-in-chief Margie Whaley
SUMMER STAFF:
Pat Faxon, Dave Greener, Marie Watson,
Dave Frykman, Wally Borner, and Sharon
Watson.
Opinions expressed in the CLARION do not neces-rarily
reflect the position of the college or seminary.
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Don't let 'Whadjoget?' get you down
Bethel staff members discuss 'grades'
by Marjorie M. Rusche
A weighty factor in student unrest across the nation seems
to be dissatisfaction with the whole educational system, but
particularly current methods of evaluating a student's work
in a course.
A recent editorial in Moderator magainze by Temple Uni-versity
professor Sidney Simson, who did away with grades last
year and may lose his job as a result, prompted the Clarion to
a random survey of its faculty members on the "grade" issue.
In Dean Virgil Olson's opinion, grades provide both a posi-tive
and negative effect on students. Olson stated, "Grades
provide goals for directional achievement; however, they also
can place a false standard on educational achievement, es-pecially
in cases where students study for the sake of grades,
not for the sake of learning." He noted it is difficult to
equate individual differences in a structured way — the
people who fit the structure achieve.
For Bethel, Dean Olson would favor a pass-fail evaluation
system for certain types of smaller classes in upper-division
areas where students are already conditioned to a college-type
of thinking and study. However, Olson would oppose a
complete across-the-board pass-fail system.
James Bragg, financial aids director, stated that grades
are a threat to students, and that often students who are
caught up in competition for grades don't have time for an
education.
Bragg did not particularly care for a pass-fail system,
but rather favored a pass/no pass method where students can
take a course as many times as they want until satisfactorily
completed without the negative effects a failure would have
on a student's G.P.A.
Bragg felt the European system of education — where a
student attends classes, takes tests at his own discretion
until he feels it is time for him to take his comprehensive
exams that are required for a degree — has merits. This
makes learning a very independent kind of thing. However,
class discussion suffers. States Bragg, "I like the idea of
classroom interaction. The process is just as important as
the knowledge."
Dean Donald Rainbow felt grades provide a definite
incentive to accomplish the assigned tasks of a course. If the
course is structured properly, hopefully the result is learning.
"Grades can have negative effects," Rainbow stated. "An
individual's self-concept could be lowered if a student feels
he has learned something in a course and receives a low grade."
Rainbow would like to see a student have the option of
doing 1/4 of his college work on a pass-fail basis. These
courses would not be from the student's major field and
could be a combination of upper-division courses and required
courses.
Dr. Al Glenn of the Christianity department thinks grades
are something the student gets used to and learns to live
with; but they sometimes have a traumatic effect on students.
Glenn didn't approve of the idea of a pass-fail system.
He wants to retain some way of distinguishing superior stu-dents
from those who just pass. However, Glenn felt a pass/
no pass system would be acceptable in certain cases.
Richard Steinhaus in the Sociology department felt grades
forced a student to work, but do not necessarily indicate
how much a student learns. "Grades put students under undue
stress," Steinhaus stated. "However, one may wonder whether
a person can learn without stress," he added.
Steinhaus expressed a desire for more pass/fail type courses
at Bethel. He felt the pass/fail system would hold the advan-tages
of allowing the teachers to know which students are
here to learn seriously, prevent last-minute cramming for a
grade, allow students more freedom in studying in different
areas of a course. Steinhaus stated, "Pass-fail would benefit
students since it would be geared to the students more as
individuals, not channeling them all into the same mold."
Drawbacks of pass-fail would be the difficulties encountered
in transcripts for other educational institutions, particularly
gradudate schools. Steinhaus noted, "You have problems be-cause
Bethel does not stand apart from society."
Dr. Roy Dalton, chairman of the history department, be -
lieves the effect of grades are as varied as students are varied.
"Freshmen come to Bethel for many reasons, and grades are
a necessary evil to motivate freshmen to study," he said.
On the other hand, Dalton expressed, some students are
grade-happy and over-anxious, see nothing else of college but
grades, use grades to measure their relationship to a facul-ty
member, and neglect other aspects of the educational ex-perience.
Dalton would favor a pass/no pass system on a limited basis
for upper-division students in areas outside of their major
to encourage dabbling in some other areas of study.
Dwight Jessup, political science professor, considers
grades a "necessary evil" since our whole system is set up on
the basis of competition. Grades lead to a last-minute cram-ming,
which is not a good learning experience.
Jessup would favor trying more pass/no pass courses as
a real experiment — not just instituting once course at a time
which would put a student in the situation of having only
one pass/no pass course and the pressure of four of five
graded courses.
Jon Fagerson, English professor thinks grades get
the student to do "the work." Fagerson feels grades lead
students to assume that "success," i.e. good grades, is the
goal in college, rather than learning. Grades can undermine
the student's power of self-evaluation, he noted.
In response to the question of approving or not approving
of pass/no pass courses, Fagerson succintly stated, "Yep."
Dr. Chris Weintz, chairman of the English department,
stated grade evaluations of any kind are not justified unless
they beneficially serve the students learning needs. They
also must be pedagogically justifiable, he said.
This attitude is reflected in the required freshman English
course, literary analysis. No tests are given. A student's
progress is indicated by his verbal expression through speak-ing
and writing. The grade for the registrar is arrived at
mutually by the student and his instructor. This gives the
student a better understanding of the value of self-examination.
Weintz stated: "One's profession or calling in life ultimately
will judge the individual student. It is our job now in college
to best prepare him for that time of judgment. And self-judgment,
in my estimation, is the most long-lasting kind of
judgment we can hope the student will impose upon himself."
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BUS LEAVES EACH SUNDAY:
9:25 A.M. and 6:40 P.M.
Summer scatters Bethel community--
Bethelites packed their bags and head-ed
in many different directions and to
many different activities this summer,
according to a CLARION poll taken near
the end of the school year.
Miscellaneous employment
For those who are spending their sum-mer
working, there are a great variety
of jobs ��� everything from lumberjacks
and construction crews to camp counsel-ing.
Don Cervin, along with Dean Gibson
and Dave Martin of the Seminary are
spending the summer in Issaquah, Wash.,
as lumberjacks. Marlys Dick can be found
as a governess to a young girl in the Twin
Cities. Parnell kingsley is employed with
the Walf are Agency, and Bob Bryant is
filling the post of teller at the Los An-geles
main office of the Bank of America
in California. Bob Hill and Jim Duddle-sten
are working on construction crews.
For the gir:s, secretarial work seems
to be foremost. Pat Keim is on the
office staff at Mt. Hermon Association in
Mt. Hermon, California. Lois Bjork is
helping to hold down the fort in the
Bethel Student Services office. Norma
Wi'cox is serving as Assistant Secretary
at Scripture Press Publications, Inc. at
Wheaton, Ill. About a dozen Bethel stu-dents
are employed in the business of-fices
at St. Paul Ramsey Hospital.
Some Bethelites are doing summer
counseling or teaching in Bible Schools
across the country. Tim Gibson is at
Young Life Frontier Ranch. Jane Heiman
is a staff member. for Campus Crusade in
Arrowhead Springs, California. Karen
Richards is a counselor at Hilltop Ranch,
Colora, Md. Dean Ericson is driving a
truck for YMCA Camp Warren. Vic Verni
is at Young Life Camp. Marge and Wayne
Ericson returned to Camp Warren where
Wayne is head cook.
Other activities include teaching at the
St. Paul Rehabilitation Center. for Sharon
Anderson, working on a ranch for Wayne
Dvirnak, drivers instructor for AAA of
Minneapolis for Warren Withrow, and
filling the position of general manager
of Insul, Inc. for Mike Scandrett.
And it may not be called work, but
Bill Carlson has spent most of his sum-mer
in preparation for the 1969 Inter-national
Surfing Championship. Joseph
L. Morgan of Anchorage, Alaska, joined
the Commercial Salmon Fishing Industry
at Bristol Bay, Alaska, in June and July
and now is a subsitute missionary at
Sand Point Chapel , in Sand Point, Alas-ka.
Tom Swanson also returned to Alaska
where he has been working in a ware-house
and dealing with forest fire fight-ing
equipment.
It has been a busy summer for Dave
Shupe, Shudent Asssociation President.
In June Dave and his wife, Della, attend-ed
the Toranto Institute of Linguistics
where Dave was a staff member and
Della worked in the library. He also at-tended
the 24th Annual Student Leader-ship
Institute on World Affairs at Sarah
Lawrence College in New York City.
Dave was enrolled in the second sesion
of summer school at Macalaster College
during July.
Travel
Traveling also seems to be a popular
activity. Sandy Adams was to participate
in a study tour with Gordon College of
Mass. The tour traced the path of the
Protestant reformers. A missionary train-ing
course to Nicaragua with trips
through Mexico, El Salvador, and Guate-mala,
was to highlight Pam Nordell's
snmmer. Prior to Rolland Schearer's
Student Missionary trip to Venzuela,
he planned to visit an Arazona ranch.
Harley Hanson planned to take a three-week
vacation to Africa with his parents
to visit missionaries and travel through
game reserves. Doug Carlson was to
travel through Europe.
Marriage
Highlighting the summer activity for
many is marriage. Those who have been
and will be married this summer include
the following: Donna Sue Cambell to
Warren Withrow and Janet Watson to
Richard Burns, May 31; Kathy Cotton to
David Simmons, June 10; Marcia Seburg
to Sid Featherstone and Joy Whaley to
Steven Doornbos, June 13; Sheila Spain
to William A. Goodwin, and Barb Con-way
to Dennis Lee Smith, June 14; Har-riet
Norgren to Steven D. Anderson, June
21; Marlys Dick to Cody Crandall, Aug.
1; Lyndia Ke!son to Barry Johnson and
Jane Schlaeppi to Robert Wi'ey, Aug. 2;
Joanne Halvorson to Ken Smith and Bev
Swenson to Dick Schultz, Aug. 8; Carol
Harris to Raymond Harder, Aug. 9; Na-omi
DeJong to Dean L. Ericson, Aug. 16;
Susan Button to Jon Christian, Aug 22;
Katherine Anderson to Vic Verni and
Kay Bowman to Vaugn Ekbom, Aug. 23;
Kathleen Lofgren to Wayne Nelson, Aug.
30; and Shirley Bruns to Val Cudnoski,
Sept. 6.
Summer School
For some of the more industrions stu-dents,
summer scchool or extra courses
were on the agenda. Warren Magnuson
planned to take two courses at the Uni-versity
of Illinois at Chicago Circle. Mary
Ellen Stevens planned to attend summer
school at Wisconsin State Uunvers'ty,
River Falls. Attending Classes at the
Uuiversity of Minnesota are Bette J. Mon-son
and Julie Stromberg.
Seniors
Seniors are looking forward to many
interesting and varied occupations.
G:enn Johnson planned on working in his
home town of Marinette, Wisc. for the
summer and in the fall to pursue his mas-ters
degree in history. John Tuttle 'and
his wife planned to move to Carlton,
Minn. where he will begin teaching
reading and spelling to elementary school
children this fall. Stan Youngberg and
his wife were looking forward to assist-ing
in a church at Gothenberg, Neb. for
the summer. In the fall he will start
seminary. David Wicklund plans to enter
Bethel Theological Seminary in the fall.
Susan Lewis Peterson and Janice Fjeld-heim
plan to begin grad school at the
U of M to work on masters degree in
music. Priscilla Solstad plans graduate
work at Madison at the University of
VAsconsin. Dale Saxon is looking for-ward
to continuing his work at Bethel
Seminary. Vaugn Ekbom will be back
in school as a math teacher in Humboldt
High School beginning in August. Ines
Bowers, after a trip to Vermont, plans to
work in the library and teach next fall.
Gary Fairall entered the Air Force in
June. Jeff Loomis, after travelling in
Europe this summer, plans to pursue
graduate work in comparative literature
at the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill. Marge Lachler planned to
attend the intersession at Wheaton, leav-ing
for Brazil in mid July where her
husband will teach in the new lay insti-six
AT ESTES PARK ANNUAL CONVENTION
Bethel students who were selected to represent the college at various
activities of the Estes Park (Colo.) Annual Conference were Dale Saxon
(standing), Fred Swedberg, Jackie Goodman and Julie Amelsberg.
students, faculty and staff members
tute in Sao Paulo. They will both be in-volved
in inter-varsity camps preparing
Brazilian leaders. And Lynn Bergfalk
plans to attend Yale University Divinity
School in the fall.
Bethel faculty and staff members have
also been involved in myriad activities
this summer.
Summer School
Patricia Brownlee attended the Campus
Crusade for Christ's Institute of Biblical
Studies at Arrowhead Springs, Calif.,
for five weeks; Robert Carlsen, Univer-sity
of Arizona; Margaret Dewey, Gerald
Healy, Dwight Jessup, Stewart Luckman,
Paul Mauger, Lillian Ryberg and David
Whitney, University of Minnesota; Royal
Bloom, teaching at Indiana University;
Donald Larson, serving as principal of
the Toronto Institute of Linguistics, lec-turing
to short-term missionaries of the
Southern Baptist Convention in Tennes-see
and then at the Instituto de Lengua
Espanola in Costa Rica.
Annual Conference
Present at the annual meetings of the
Baptist General Conference in Estes Park
were Stanley Anderson, Robert Carlsen
Olaf Olsen, Junet Runbeck, Howard
Smith, Julius Whitinger and David Whit-ney.
Junet Runbeck, Whitinger and
Whitney also were workshop leaders at
the Christian Education Congress pre-ceding
the Conference. Edwin Groenhoff
attended the annual conference of the
Evangelical Free Church in Ocean Grove,
N.J.
Summer Camps and Christian Service
Carol Christensen is co-director of the
Calvary-New Hope Vacation Bible School
in August; Paul Finlay, Bible teacher at
Big Trout Lake Family Camp; Al Glenn,
interim pastor at Brooklyn Center Bap-tist
Church; Ed Groenhoff, speaker at
the Mt. Herman Bible Conference in
Calif., at Camp Shamineau in Motley,
Minn., and at the Rocky Mountain Free
Church Camp near Estes Park; Russell
Johnson, camp naturalist for a week at
Camp Burton, Ohio; Oliver Mogck, music
director at Asbury Camp in North Da-kota
and on the faculty of the church
music camp at Lake Arrowhead, Minn.;
Carol Morgan, director of the Girls'
Camp at Wheaton's Honey Rock Camp
in Wisconsin; Maurice Shields, camp ad-ministrator
at Center Lake Bible Camp
at Tustin, Mich.; Howard Smith, will lec-ture
at Camp Burton, Ohio at the Labor
Day Week End Church Music Camp;
W. Robert Smith, on a world tour, the
first appointment being in Iceland and
the last two in Guam and Hawaii; Jack
Trager, Day Camp supervisor at White
Bear Lake for the YMCA; Heidi Wait-schies,
counselor at a church camp in
Montana for a week in June.
Special Projects
Philip Carlson and Richard Harris are
co-directors of a three-week workshop
sponsored by Bethel and funded by the
National Science Foundation on "Imple-mentation
of Elementary School Science
and Mathematics Curricular"; Arthur
Lewis, spending two months in Portugal
as SPAN advisor, assisting university stu-dents
with special academic research
projects; Paul Mauger, involved in super-vised
clinical experience and work at
Hennepin County General Hospital and
the University of Minnesota Medical
Center in connection with his doctoral
program; Paul Redin, working with the
Minnemast group at th eUniversity.
James Rodgers, involved in chemical re-search
under Dr. Stanley J. Cristol at the
University of Colorado at Boulder under
an N.S.F. grant; Junet Runbeck, went on
a West African Study Tour and attended
meetings of the World Assembly of the
international Council on Education for
Teaching and the World Confederation
of Organizations of the Teaching Pro-fession
in Abidjan.
Research and Writing
Several teachers who are in the final
stages of their doctoral programs and
are spending the summer in research
and writing of their dissertations include
Startiey Anderson, Jeanine Bohlmeyer,
Philip Carlson, Elliott Donnels, Eugene
Glader, Rolland Hein, James Mason,
Chris Weintz and Julius Whitinger; Jon
Fagerson, Gene Peterson and Richard
Ward have been studying for oral pre-lims;
Robert Berglund is working on a
book in Church Music and writing and
arranging music to be published by
Schmitt, Hall McCreary of Minneapolis;
Edwin Groenhoff is working on a book
on the History of Teacher Education
in the United States; Don Larson is doing
final editorial work on a book entitled,
Becoming Bilingual; Art Lewis is doing
research in the Phonician Influence on
the Ibernian Peninsula out of which will
come a journal article and teaching ma-terial:
Olaf Olsen will be doing research
in nineteenth-century British religious
history and possible mining of an article
from his doctoral research material; and
Walter Wessel planned to spend three
weeks with the General Editorial Com-mittee
of the New Bible Translation, of-ficial
designated as A Contemporary
Translation.
Professional Meetings
Al Glenn planned to attend the Con-temporary
Theology Institute on "The
Structure of Theology" in Montreal this
month; Oliver Mogck attended the sum-mer
workshop of the National Associa-tion
of Teachers of Singing at St. Cloud.
Heidi Waitschies is attending the EPDA
Institute in German at the University
of Minnesota this month; and Walter
Wessel attended the Summer Institute
on Judaism at Vanderbilt University.
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Bethel News Bits
Accredation Renewal Granted
NEW DORM PARENTS
Taking over the dorm "mother" vacancies in Hagstrom and Edgren
Dorms this year are, respectively, Mrs. Amanda Almer and Mr. and Mrs.
Howard Engnell. "Mom" Almer is the widow of the late Rev. Carl A.
Almer, Lutheran chaplain and pastor who held several pastorates in
the Minnesota area and most recently lived at Mobile, Ala. Howard (a
senior seminarian at Bethel) and Grace Engnell and their one-year-old
and two-week-old sons will be the "first family" at Edgren.
Bethel College has received renewal
of its North Central Accreditation, as
a result of the visit paid by a re-evalua-tion
team from the North Central Ac-crediting
agency last March.
Pregident Carl Lundquist and Dean
Virgil Olson met this summer with the
Sub-committee of the Commission on
Colleges and Universities in Chicago for
the final stage of the once-every-ten-years
re-evaluation.
Officials said the purpose of the meet-ing
was to discuss Bethel's policies in
general and some of the problems it
faces. Among the topics discussed were
the salary of faculty members and their
recruitment, policies regarding selection
of the college dean and future policy re-garding
federal funds and the admissions
program. Particular attention was direct-ed
to plans for recruiting minority and
underprivileged students.
No conditions or commitments were
formally required or agreed upon, col-lege
officials said.
A number of the faculty will not be
returning to Bethel next year for various
reasons.
Royal Bloom, Director of testing and
instructor in psychology, plans, as was
previously announced, to retire this year.
His plans for the future include nothing
New counselor
In response to last year's plea for im-proved
counseling services for students,
college officials recently announced that
Mr. Lee Bajuniemi will return to Bethel
this fall.
Bajuniemi left Bethel to continue grad-uate
work at the University of Minnesota
in the spring of 1968 after serving as
instructor of psychology and assistant
Dean of Students for the second semester
of the 1966-67 school year and the entire
academic year of 1967--68.
He is a graduate of Bethel College and
is now a candidate for a PhD in counsel-ing.
Mr. Bajuniemi will be at Bethel part
time and will occupy an office in the
front portion of Psychology House.
definite as yet, except that he taught
statistics in the Graduate School at In-diana
University during the summer
session.
Mary Sodergren, instructor in Eng-lish,
will take a vacation from teaching
this coming year as she and her husband
plan to receive an addition to their fa-mily
in September. They will remain the
houseparents at Pascal Manor while her
husband, Arnold Sodergren, continues
working toward his doctorate in bio-chemistry.
Carol Christensen, reference librarian,
will remain at Bethel part time in the
evenings. She has been active in the
New Hope Baptist Church, a St. Paul
church with a Black congregation, and
plans a greater involvement in the "inner
city" area to occupy her time and ef-forts
next year.
Carol Morgan from the department of
physical education has spent her sum-mer
as director of Honey Rock Girls
Camp and in the fall will finish work
on her masters degree at Colorado State
College in Greeley.
From the sociology department, Paul
Andrusko will be leaving to start work
on his doctorate this fall. His plans are
somewhat undecided as yet.
Garth Roselle, a temporary replace-ment
for Jim Johnson, American his-tory
professor, who is on sabbatical this
year, will not be returning to Bethel
next year. He will be gOing out East
for the summer and early fall to do
research on his doctoral dissertatiOn on
early 19th century American history.
Elliott Donnels, associate professor of
education, also will not return in the
fall. At present, his plans for the future
are not formulated.
Seven leave Bethel's faculty
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COUNTRY STORE
Summer's performing arts draws crowd
Sabbaticals New Dorm plans first social - Luau
Two Bethel faculty members who are
planning to take sabbaticals during the
next school term will be working on pro-jects
right in this area.
Miss Lillian Ryberg, chairman of the
department of foreign languages, will
be working on studies at the University
of Minnesota. She will be studying for-eign
language research.
It is conceivable, Miss Ryberg said,
that she also might be doing some study-ing
in Mexico. She is currently on a com-mittee
working with Spanish teachers on
the problems of teaching Spanish in the
Minnesota schools.
Dr. Walter Wessel, chairman of the
department of Christianity, is taking his
sabbatical during the first semester only.
He will be working on two books. One
is a college text on the epistle to the
Romans and the other is a commentary
on the epistle of James at the Univer-sity
of Edinburgh in Scotland.
by Marie Watson
Performing arts on campus this
summer were confined to a single
event when a crowd about 250-
strong turned out to see a produc-tion
by the Simpson Street Players.
The college auditorium adopted
the atmosphere of an old-fashioned
country store as a group of neigh-borhood
children, ranging from
age three to thirteen, performed
the operetta, "Mulligan's Magic"
by Alta Halvorson and He:en Wing.
Mrs. Gerald (Millie)) Healy, a
Bethel student and wife of Profes-
A Hawaiian luau awaits both returning
residents as well as malahinis to Bethel's
New Dormitory in Arden Hills. A "feast"
and "festivities" have been planned for
Friday, September 5, the New Dorm's
first social event.
The luau will have a menu that in-cludes
ham in buns, baked potatoes, corn
on the cob, punch, and plenty of fresh
fruit. It will be an occasion designed to
welcome the residents to their home
away from home.
During the evening some of the diners
will become entertainers. Greetings, in-troductions
and words concerning the
upcoming year are also scheduled. The
affair will be a time for students to
renew old acquaintances and make new
ones.
The purpose of the evening is to
enhance unity and pride amonge the
sor Healy of the English depart-ment,
is director of the group. She
was inspired with the idea six
years ago while watching a child-ren's
operatic group perform at a
Junior-Senior Banquet. This was the
fifth year children and parents in
the neighborhood persuaded Mrs.
Healy to stage another production
ike their first.
Admission charged for the event
goes toward a donation to Camp
Courage for physically handicapped
children. This summer's afternoon
and evening performance netted
about $50, Mrs. Healy said.
New Dorm's 120 residents. Dorm Presi-dent,
Rod Larson stated in a recent
newsletter to this year's residents„ "This
year at the dorm we are going to try
to create an atmosphere of unity. We
would like everyone on the 'other cam-pus'
to know that we are from The Dorm
and that we are proud of the fact!"
MARK KINGSBECK
WBCS adds studio
In the lower level of Bethel's adminis-tration
building, the end product of
hours of summer labor will be an
expansion of Bethel radio station studios
to enhance new programming and ad-ditional
broadcasting hours.
Mark Kingsbeck, WBCS station mana-ger,
and several other staff members
have been spending their summer even-ings
continuing the station remodeling
that began last spring. When school
convenes, WBCS will boast a new re-cording
studio along with two other
studios, one for news and the other for
most of the broadcasting.
WBCS radio will be on the air 18
hours a day, from 6 a.m. to midnight,
Kingsbeck said. Programming for the
18-hour day will include various types
of music with news, talk shows, specials,
sporting events, chapel messages, lectures
and dramatic stories.
The station plans to continue its CCR
(Contemporary Christian Radio) type pro-gramming
that it originated last school
year.
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Twelve new faces among fulltime faculty
by Pat Faxon
Among the new members joining Beth-ing
Bethel's faculty this fall are twelve
fulltime professors, according to infor-mation
received from the dean's office.
One newcomer as a full time faculty
member is James Treece who taught
part time at Bethel last year. He will
join the sociology department full time
this fall. Treece is a former Bethel
graduate and is presently finishing work
on his doctoral degree at the University
of Minnesota. -Since graduating from
Bethel he has taught at St. Paul
Bible College, South Dakota State uni-ervsity,
and Anchor School of Nursing.
Also joining the social sciences depart-ment
is Dr. Justin Abraham. Dr. Abra-ham
is classified as a visiting assistant
professor of sociology. He will be teach-ing
courses in economics and assisting
in the anthropology department. Abra-ham
is a native of India where he re-ceived
his doctorate. While in this coun-try,
he has been teaching at Stephen's
College, and while here at Bethel Col-lege,
he will be studying theology at
Bethel Seminary.
The English department will be re-ceiving
Mr. James Anderion as an in-structor
in English in replacement of
Mrs. Sodergren who will not return next
fall. Anderson received his masters de-gree
from the University of Northern
Iowa and has been teaching at Iowa Lakes
Community College at Estherville, Iowa.
Replacing Miss Lillian Ryberg, who will
be on sabbatical this coming year, will be
Leon Narvaez. Narvaez is a graduate of
the University of Minnesota and has been
teaching at Kearney State College in
Kearney, Nebraska.
Another new member in the language
department will be Gerard Laroche.
Laroche, who received his masters de-gree
in French from Roosevelt Univer-sity
in Illinois, is coming to Bethel. from
Southwest High School in Minneapolis.
He is a graduate of both Bethel College
and Seminary.
The political science division of the
history department is also receiving an
addition. Dr. William Johnson who has
been teaching both graduate and under
graduate courses at the University of
Northern Illinois will be adding a new
dimension to political science at Bethel.
Johnson received his doctorate from
Claremont Graduate School in Claremont,
Calif.
In the Christianity department, Dr.
Robert Stein who received his doctorate
in theology from Princeton Theological
Seminary, will replace Dr. Robert Mounce
who left several years ago. Stein will
teach New Testament courses.
Steven Terrell will be the new addi-tion
to the speech department. Terrell
is a professional actor who has worked
for CBS and received his masters degree
in directing and playwriting at California
State College in Fullerton, Calif. He has
taught at Biola College in Mirada, Calif.,
and will be a professor of speech and
drama at Bethel next year.
There will also be an addition to the
art department in the person of George
Robinson. Robinson whose specialty is
graphic arts, is now at the Hartford
Art School at the University of Hartford
in Connecticut.
Thomas Goff who is presently teach-ing
in the biology department on a part
time basis will return to Bethel full
time this fall. He will be replacing Jack
Buss who left Bethel in 1968. Goff
is in the process of finishing his work
on his doctorate degree at the Univer-sity
of Minnesota.
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A tale of three campuses
(Editor's Note: What has been happening at Bethel's cam-puses
— (new college, seminary, and old campus) — this
summer? What is the newest word on college relocation
plans? A CLARION reporter spent some time recently dis-cussing
these situations with college officials.)
by Dave Greener
A decade ago a decision was made — a decision to follow
a dream. Part of that dream was to relocate Bethel's college
and to build it anew in Arden Hills, with a target completion
goal of 1971, Bethel's centennial year.
College Relocation Plans Altered
, However, another decision made early this summer may
not necessarily alter that "target" but it is expected to affect
the nature of the "payload." While relocation may still occur
in 1971, it will not be in the manner previously hoped for.
Late last June the Board of Regeants concluded that a
number of factors have combined to make the 1971 target
date impractical, according to Harvey DeVries, vice president
of public affairs.
At the same time, architects for the new college campus
were given free rein to continue the idea of "phasing," a re-location
measure where moving is done in stages instead of
simultaneously.
This recent decision — a rude awakening for some people
but the manisfestation of realistic expectations for others —
was based on multitudinous factors, and many of these were
interrelating.
One decisive factor was revealed by Dr. Philip Carlson,
campus planning coordinator, as he pointed out that if com-plete
relocation were to be realized by 1971, it would cost
one-half million dollars a month, starting from August.
"Obviously, we can't begin with such a payment schedule
unless we foresee an income of one-half million dollars a
month," Carlson said.
Virgil Olson, vice president and dean of the college, who
is one of the chief idea men in new college campus matters,
explains that the flow of incoming money for the new campus
must be coordinated with the development of the building
program. Schedules of donors giving their contributions by
installments and the cost needs schedules of the college may
not always coincide.
Dean Olson also pointed out that the process of building
itself, the fact that there is not yet a contractor, and a
Conference change in scheduling of fund-raising activity can
be added to the list.
A number of other factor listed by Harvey DeVries, when
considered with the above, seem to almost make the Board
decision of "impractical" a weak indictment of the possibility
of achieving earlier hopes. As he reveals, the college is nearly
on schedule in some areas but there are also escalating costs,
tight money, an unavailability of adequate federal loan funds
(to be distinguished from federal grants) and a shortage of
commercial loan money as well.
No new commons this year
With such shortages, priority could not be given plans for
a commons area at the present new campus dormitory, let
alone the new college for 1200 students. About the only way
this hoped-for structure could be built, according to Burton
Wessman, Vice President of Business Affairs, would be if
cash or a pledge were coming in. Thus, although it was earlier
hoped to be built this year, the commons for the 120 students
at the new college campus will not be built, "unless," as
Wessman says, "there's an angel sitting someplace in the
wings."
If some things can not be accomplished, what then could
be done?
The Board is seriously considering "phasing" as the al-ternative
so that a central core portion of the new college
could be hopefully constructed for 1971. This development
might include the Arden Hills library, a dining area (with a
lounge above), a power plant, and more dormitories (there
would be no general classrooms in this phase but classes
could meet in parts of the library, for example).
Under such a plan, the college would actually be split
between two campuses, with art, music and science programs
remaining at the St. Paul campus and the others going to
Arden Hills.
When the dual situation arises, possibly, according to
Carlson, the old campus should be an all-freshman campus
and the new one for juniors and seniors. (The general programs
of most freshmen, of course, necessitate some large classes
while juniors and seniors usually are in the major area
stage of schooling, frequently with relatively small classes.)
A problem for Dr. Paul Finlay, Registrar and Director of
Admissions, who is testing the feasability of the move in
this area, is what to do then with sophomores, many of them
who are in an intermediate stage in relation to the others.
Another alternative to such a phasing plan is to construct
buildings on the new campus but leave them vacant for some
period.
But what ever happens, there is a good economic reason,
according to Carlson, for partial relocation new. As he ex-plains,
it _would be unwise for the school to let the two
million dollars it now has to remain unused. Because of
inflation, at present rates $200,000 dollars would be lost for
each year of the fund's dormancy. (It might be added that,
because of cost escalations and other reasons cited above,
"total" construction costs would presently be $4 million dollars
above the 1967 price.) But beyond this, some preliminaries
are already being taken care of and if the price is right and
if "phasing" can be done "without gross educational disad-vantages,"
the Board may well adopt it as a working plan.
So what remains? All-out despair? Hardly. In spite of fore-boding
adversities, DeVries could point to a fund-raising
program that has been remarkably successful. According to
him, total contributions in 1968-69 totaled $1,423,000. Further-
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more, DeVries states that Bethel ranks fifth in Minnesota
in terms of receiving contributional dollars. (One extreme
example is R. E. Ahlport of Laguna Beach, California, who
contributed $100,000 last June. Another is the anonymous
donor who made the present New Dormitory a reality.)
Also, according to DeVries, there has been an accumulation
of $11 million in assets in the last ten to fifteen years (beyond
costs). Furthermore, a local public relations firm has been
contracted to raise funds by soliciting from national corporate
businesses and foundations and general philanthropic asso-ciations.
(Prior to this, one similar association — the Otto
Breamer Foundation — awarded Bethel $45,000 for site im-provements
on the new campus. Specifically to athletic and
recreational purposes, this would include over three years a
practice football field and a ball diamond.)
DeVries also pointed out that in spite of heavy financial
considerations, Bethel has kept priorities in academic devel-opment.
He listed as evidence accreditation, the passing of
a review by NCATE, and general "considerable strengthening"
of the academic program.
So the difficult task of relocation is being worked on
right now. The best possible avenues for resources are being
sought.
On the planning end, Dr. Carlson wishes to make known
that he hopes students feel free to converse with him as he
welcomes questions and suggestions.
"It's going to take a great deal of cooperation and under-standing
so we don't lose sight of major goals because of
minor irritations," Dean Olson said.
Perhaps enough students will consider the end goal, the
dream of relocation to Arden's 216 acres of green hills, to be
worth it.
NEW BUILDINGS AT THE SEMINARY
While Bethel College was experiencing the rigors of
preparing for a new campus in Arden Hills, Bethel Seminary
saw the near-fulfillment of its planning as two buildings were
being added to the complex already there.
As the summer wore on, steel skeletons of a chapel and
a student union began to take more definite form as the
dull-red bricks were added to the steel network of supports.
"The whole outside effect of both buildings will be the
same as the ones already there," said Brian Morgan of
Architects Planners Inc., the firm which took over the job
from the original architectural designers.
According to Morgan, completion dates will be early Oct-ober
for the union and November 21 for the entire complex.
Problems have been encountered in this project too — "There
is a fantastic shortage of brick layers in the Twin Cities area,"
Morgan said.
The two new buildings will join a campus that was other-wise
primarily completed in 1965. This ends Seminary con-struction,
as envisioned for the near future at least.
The chapel will consist of a ground floor with a large
lecture room, a studio and control room, and a practice preach-ing
area. It is yet a question of choosing between chairs or
pews for seating.
On second floor, the chapel itself will include the usual
pulpit, baptistry, communion table and choir area.
The student union will include a ground lounge on first
floor, facilities for student dining, a kitchen, a bookstore, and
a mail room. Also a part of the two story building will be a
student government room, fireplace, faculty lounge and a
prayer room which will be as a circular drum in the middle
of a room with entrance elsewhere.
ACTIVITY ON THE OLD CAMPUS
For a campus that may be sold in but a few years, Bethel's
"old" St. Paul campus was not as dormant as might be
expected.
During the summer months, the campus that has been
school and/or home to hundreds of people was receiving its
annual extensive maintenance job.
Glen Hayne, superintendent of buildings and grounds,
shrugs off the summer as "nothing special," but returning
students will find several notable changes.
Partitioning has transformed the classroom in the language
house into two offices. The education house "back porch"
has been remodeled into an additional education library and
study area. The public affairs office has a little more space
since it was extended some into the print shop area.
Another major change is that the school-owned property at
1540 N. Snelling has been put into use as an office for the
director of admissions.
Hayne had about fifteen students working for him, as
well as three men who painted constantly during the entire
summer. Visiting Navigators also assisted with cleaning, re-painting,
revarnishing and resealing certain areas of campus
buildings. (See story, Page 1.)
FINANCIAL AIDS UP—
According to statistics recently com-piled
by Paul R. Finlay, Registrar, re-sources
available to students have risen
way out of proportion to educational
costs.
Since 1955, the cost of tuition, room
and board (fees also included) has risen
from $300 a year to $1975 or 147 percent.
During the same period, the amount of
financial aids available to students (in-cludes
all forms of assistance listed in
the catalog has risen from $5,500 to
$553,400 or 9960 percent. Most of the
increase in financial aids has come
from government assistance, he noted.
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by Wally Borner
The Bethel fieldhouse has been relatively empty
this summer except for an occasional custodian or foot-ball
player. But slowly, activity will begin to pick up
as more football players came to town and as another
school year eclipses a summer of unfinished ideas,
till* etc.
The football team will be getting together soon for
their training camp in which they will try to cram con-ditioning
and learning the offense and defense into
a couple short weeks before their first contest against
Macalester on Saturday, Sept. 6 at their stadium.
Macalester beat Bethel with a young team last year
and can be expected to be much stronger. Our other St.
Paul foe, Hamline, will come at us with a pro prospect
in quarterback Larry Hegerle.
Senior Murray Sitte will be prime contender for the
quaterback job this season. The offense should be about
the same as last year, and the defense should be im-proved.
A healthy season from Tom Molin should bol-ster
the Royals pass rush and keep the opposing offens-es
in the hold a little more often. Probably the two
most important ingredients for a good season, how-ever,
will be added experience and confidence.
Last year's cross country team had a very good
year but this season will have some holes to fill. Coach
Gene Glader will be looking for some hard-working
freshman to build a good squad.
SCIENCE STUDENTS ON TOP
In the past four years, three Beth-el
valedictorians came from the sci-ence
division: 1966, Pat Fleming—
Biology; 1967, LoAnn Liukonen—Na-tural
Science; 1968, Jonathan L. Lar-son—
history; and 1969, Lanny Boyd-
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The soccer team will try to get into good physical
condition earlier this year. The team will be basically
unchanged from last year and should provide good
competition for Bethany Lutheran of Mankato in its
opening game on Septe*m b*e r *20 .*
Bob Brodin and Bill Painter will be sharing top
duties in Intramural Sports this year. Working on our
successes and failures of the past season, '69-70 should
be a very successful year. An attempt will be made to
work closer with team managers in order to run every-thing
as efficiently as possible. The teams will remain
the same, with freshman being added by their living
quarters or drafted by lottery. Falcon will retain its
homogeniety despite losing their quarters to upper
class women. However, they should be able to come up
with a bona fide cheer*in g* s ection*.
The Twins have been proving themselves to be
one of the most colorful teams in major league base-ball.
Billy Martin should be manager of the year with
all the successful tricks he's pulled. If Killebrew can
shake his slump, he should be MVP with Rod Carew
coming right Tn fact, the Twins could con-ceivably
have four of the top ten in the MVP race.
But whether th'v'll win their division, the AL pennant,
or the Series—one can't really say. They're that kind
of a ball club.
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Dean's List: Second Semester 1968-69
Who qualifies for the Dean's List? The honor rolls include all students who
carried at least twelve credit hours in academic subjects for the semester.
Anderson, Joel E.
Bergfalk, Lynn A.
Bunger, Paul C.
Carlson, Thomas M.
Chung, Simon
DeJong, Naomi W.
Dick, Rachel M.
Dupire, Carole L.
Fjeldheim, Janice L.
Goodman, Jacqueline K.
Grant, Beverly K.
Hastings, Janell E.
Johnson, Janet W.
Knapp, Beverly L.
Lundell, Muriel F.
Lundgren, John P.
Aarhus, Ruth A.
Adams, Sondra L.
Akinwale, John T.
Amundson, Deborah R.
Andersen, Sharon D.
Anderson, Barry H.
Anderson, David Iv1.
Anderson, Gaylord B.
Anderson, I. Annette
Anderson, Kathrine E.
Anderson, Keith R.
Anderson, Linda J.
Anderson, Susan M.
Atkin, Deborah L.
Atkins, Barbara L.
Bacon, Linda K.
Baker, Darla M.
Balogh, Irene A.
Bankester, Anita F.
Barnett, Melody L.
Bartholo-iew, Eleanor D.
Bergeson, Jane E.
Berglund, Linda M.
Berry, Dale A.
Berry, David E.
Blork, Lois J.
Bjorklund, Jonathan 0.
Bjorklund, Renae J.
Blomberg, Timothy M.
Bomstad, Susan M.
Boone, Robert L.
Bowers, Ines D.
Bowman, C. Kay
Boyd, Lanny A.
Brodin, Robert A.
Brown, Rebecca R.
Brumm, Fred W.
Bryan, Carolyn R.
Bryant, Robert R.
Bussiere, James 0.
Cahoon, Jane K.
Campbell, Margie C.
Campbell, Rachel A.
Carlson, Constance M.
Carlson, Douglas James
Carlson, Douglas John
Carlson, Linda M.
Carlson, Manley G.
Carlson, Peggy L.
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Marcellis, Carol A.
Newcomer, Jill M.
Nymann, Pamela G.
Olsen, Judith A.
Pilch, Gail A.
Rask, Gary E.
Reasoner, Sarah R.
Robertson, Sarah R.
Rusche, Marjorie M.
Shearer, Karol R.
Shimkus, Margery R.
Spurgeon, Sandra L.
Stocking, Thomas E.
Stump, Rebecca W.
Weinbauer, Linda C.
Wilzewske, John W.
Carlson, Terrence J.
Carpenter, Robert W.
Chase, Patricia A.
Chellberg, Joyce I.
Christenson, Jan D.
Chryst, Janet M.
Clark, Gary D.
Connors, James E.
Conway, Barbara L.
Cotton, Kathryn J.
Cowan, John H.
Creighton, Elizabeth M.
Crumrine, Carol W.
Dahlby, Carolyn M.
Danielson, Shelley A.
Danielson, Themen S.
Davies, Marilyn R.
Davies, Richard E.
Davis, Barbara A.
Oejdar, Robert J.
Delich, James R.
Dick, Marlys J.
Dow, Linda B.
Downey, Robert E.
Dragseth, Sonya C.
Dueholm, Nadine J.
Eckstrorn, Elizabeth A.
Edlund, Diane B.
Edwards, Jeane A.
Ekbom, Gregory A.
Eichorn, Vaughn W.
Elseth, Elden J.
Erickson, DeVaughn C.
Erickson, Douglas J.
Erickson, Mary E.
Erickson, Sandra J.
Ericson, Dean L.
Ericson, Gale D.
Erlandson, Shirley M.
Monica A.
Fales, Susan K.
Fall, Nancy L.
Feldman, James W.
Ferris, A. Dwight
Floberg, Cathy R.
Fomunyam, Ruby T.
Ford, Thomas A.
Freitag, Ingrid S.
Froelich, Christine J.
Fulton, James R.
Gaalswyk, Cora J.
Gabelmann, C. Kay
Gemar, Charlene
Gemar, Cheryl
Gerdin, Nancy M.
Gibson, Dean L.
Golden, Karen R.
Goodman, John D.
Goudy, Bradford J.
Grant, Joanne L.
Grant, Joyce E.
Green, Howard R.
Green, Virginia B.
Gustafson, Robert L.
Gustafson, Warren J.
Halgren, Douglas W.
Hall, Edward 0.
Hamilton, Gary E.
Hanson, Kenneth L.
Harness, Kay E.
Harris, Barbara K.
Harris, Carol A.
Healy, Mary Jo
Healy, Mildred L.
Heckman, Judith B.
He.-.!man, Pauline M.
Heikkinen, Marianne K.
Hendrickson, Ronald M.
Henry, Stephen J.
Hill, Robert M.
Hinders, Tamara L.
Hogman, A.
1--losington, Edith C.
Hopkins, John R.
Hotek, Karen L.
Hough, Sharon R.
Howard, Thomas L.
Humbert, Philip E.
Hutchings, Deborah J.
Irons, Kenneth L.
Jackson, Linda A.
Jacobson, Paulette A.
Jarp, Caroll L.
Johnson, Barbara J.
Johnson, Barbara R.
Johnson, Barbara S.
Johnson, Candice A.
Johnson, Emily L.
Johnson, Glenn D.
Johnson, James I.
Johnson, Janet A.
Johnson, Keith E.
Johnson, Roger A.
Jorgenson, Stephen H.
Kassrn, Olakunle 0.
K3:m, Patricia A.
Kern, No:man P.
King, Rudy E.
King, Ruth M.
Kleme-Iii, Gail L.
Kling, Miriam E.
Knoll, Nancy J.
Kobielush, Bruce L.
Kostelny, Naomi S.
Krause, Jon D.
Lachler, Margaret E.
Lambrides, Stephen P.
Larkin, Annice M.
Larson, John W.
Larson, Nancy R.
Lehman, Lois J.
Lehmann, Linda C.
Liew, James
Lind, Barbara J.
Lind, Donna M.
Lindaman, Rebecca A.
Linder, Liana J.
Lindman, Mary C.
Loewen, Elva K.
Loomis, Jeffrey B.
Lovgren, Linda K.
Luedtke, Janet L.
Mackey, Renee L.
Madison, Dean F.
Magnuson, James B.
Magnuson, Warren A.
Mattson, Leroy G.
Meckley, Elizabeth A.
Mick, Linda J.
Monson, Elizabeth J.
Moody, Lois E.
Morris, Kathleen A.
Morrow, Virginia A.
Mueller, Barba-a A.
Mueller, Gary H.
Musser, Dana L.
Musser, Doyle M.
Myrbo, Charles L.
McCann, Gary L.
McCarty, Dennis R.
McJunkin, Wendy L.
McLellan, Mary A.
McLeod, Hugh W.
McMurray, Sandra K.
McWafters, Jolin T.
Nelson, Daniel A.
Nelson, Daniel H.
Nelson, Darrel D.
Nelson, Elmer L.
Nelson, Judith C.
Nelson, Lydia G.
Niehouse, Carolyn R.
Nordel!, Pamela D.
Nordin, Sheryl R.
Nydegger, Carol J.
Olander, Richard C.
Olsen, Barbara L.
Olsen, Larry R.
Olson, Elaine J.
Olson, Joanne E.
Olson, Naomi H.
Pearson, Beverly J.
Pearson, Christine H.
Pearson, David C.
Pearson, Esther M.
Pearson, Lois A.
Peik, Randall S.
Person, Sharon B.
Peterson, Forrest W.
Peterson, Joel A.
Peterson, Patricia A.
Poison, Anne R .
Port, Lynette C.
Port, Nola S.
Pound, David J.
Rendahi, Dale S.
Richards, Karen B.
Richards, Nancy L.
Richardson, Lowell D.
Rodberg, Karen E.
Rodquist, David W.
Roe, Ste 'en A.
Roemor, Peter T.
Roth Kathleen K.
Sandberg, Richard J.
Sandquist, Carolyn L.
Sather, Jerome L.
Schaeffer, Barbara L.
Schaeffer, Deborah J.
Schearer, Rolland D.
Scheerer, Pamela J.
Schlaeppi, Jane L.
Schmiess, Lauren J.
Schoenfelder, Bonnie L.
Schoenherr, Janet M.
Schonbachler, Patrick J.
Schroeder, Marie C.
Seaholm, Jeanne A.
Sheppard, Carmen C.
Shupe, David A.
Siebelist, Lois E.
Sirnk:ns, Edward A.
Sitte, Murray J.
Skanse, Bonnie F.
Skon, Ronald W.
Skurdahl, Oliver P.
Smith, Elizabeth E.
Smith, Raymond F.
Smith, Stephen P.
Solstad, Priscilla J.
Sorley, Marji
Soule, Edward A.
Sparl:s, Linda A.
Staufer, Randy F.
Steinke, Judith A.
Stevens, Mary E.
Stock, Kent M.
Stoesz, James D.
Stoesz, Sharla L.
Strand, Fred C.
Sundberg, Linae M.
Swanson, Ann M.
Swanson, Cheryl L.
Swanson, Jeffrey G.
Swanson, Richard A.
Swanson, Thomas E.
Swedberg, Frederick W.
Swedberg, Merrie K.
Swenson, Beverly A.
Techman, Merle A.
Thomson, Jackie G.
Tibstra, Judith A.
Timming, Kathleen M.
Toays, Rosalyn R.
Toman, Edith E.
Torgerson, Lorna D.
Trinity, John R.
Tso, Philip L.
Tuttle, John A.
Ullberg, Janet L.
Unger, Elizabeth J.
Van Epps, Larry J.
Vangness, Peggy A.
Watson, Janet R.
Weaver, Nancy E.
Weber, Linda C.
Weller, Kenneth L.
Whennen, John E.
White, Donald R.
Wiens, Roger D.
Williams, Dennis R.
Wilson, Kennard R.
Withrow, Warren H.
Wong, Yiu Chuen
Worrell, Jo Ellen
Wright, Wanda M.
Wyma, Janice L.
Young, Beverly E.
Youngberg, Stanley E.
Youngquist, James H.
Zaffke, Maurice J.
"A" HONOR ROLL
"B" HONOR ROLL
Deat hew Sri-edema . ,
August 13, 1969
Dear Future Colleague:
Fall is rapidly approaching and with it comes college registration, and,
at Bethel College, Freshman Welcome Week. Welcome Week is a time for
you to become familiar with Bethel College, its faculty members, and a time
to meet Christian guys and gals from all over the world.
The Welcome Week staff, composed entirely of Bethel students, will be
anxiously awaiting your arrival on September 2. Our goal is to acquaint'
you with as many aspects of Bethel College as possible, and share with you
what Jesus Christ is doing in each of our lives.
The majority of activities begins on Wednesday, September 3, eight
a.m., with Orientation Conference. However, those who will be staying in
campus housing will want to arrive September 2 to settle in their residence.
There you can become acquainted with your Resident Assistant (R.A.) and
your "mother" for the year.
When you arrive, there will be placement tests, auditions, mixers, other
surprises, and a semi-formal banquet where you can meet your friends on
the faculty. Save your money, for the cost of Welcome Week will be ten
American greens. This ten dollars will cover the cost of all the activities'
that you will need to take part in.
Start preparing for Welcome Week and your year at Bethel College. We
are looking forward to seeing you.
In Him,
Bruce Otto
Welcome Week Chairman
Welcome/
WELCOME WEEK SCHEDULE
Sept. 2
Residence Halls Open-9 a.m.
Welcome Week Reception,
Bodien Lawn-3 p.m.
Parents' Program-8 p.m.
Residence Hall Orientation Programs
—8 p.m.
Sept. 3
Orientation Conference-8 a.m.
Testing
Registration
Parent's Breakfast-8:30 a.m.
Welcome Week Mixer-8 p.m.
Sept. 4
Registration
Major Area Workshops
Welcome Week Banquet-7 p.m.
Sept. 5
Activity Workshops
Sept. 6
All Day Picnic, Arden Hills Campus
Freshmen Initiation Ceremony-
7:30 p.m.
Sept. 7
Singspiration-9 p.m.
WELCOME!
One might suspect that these three coordinators
of the Welcome Week Committee (L-R, Lois Lehman,
Bruce Otto and Rich Trinity) have more up their
sleeves than distributing beanies to all the freshmen.
EXTRA! EXTRA
EXTRA! EXTRA
Do you want to be on the staff of an All-American
newspaper? You can and you don't have to be an
Ernie Pyle or a Drew Pearson to do it. In fact,
you don't even have to be a writer at all.
Twice last year (October and April) Bethel's
Clarion was given an All-American rating in its
classification. This fall, as always, there will be posi-tions
such as reporters, editors, business manager,
proofreaders, cartoonists, and distribution and ad-vertising
people.
See any staff member or visit us in our office in
the lower level of the Administration Building.
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Vol. XLIV—No. 1
Bethel College, St. Paul, Minn. Tuesday, September 2, 1969
1969
Navigators make Bethel their 'home port'
by Dave Greener
With most Bethel students at home
and none living on campus, the green
leaves of summer shade little more than
a few students with on-campus summer
jobs, a remnant of faculty and adminis-tration,
random visitors and occasional
groups borrowing Bethel facilities.
One of these such "groups" is the
Navigator Rangers. Their stay at Bethel
is longer and their interrelationship with
the campus more profound than most
other groups. Why have these young
collegiates, graduates and their advisors
decided to find their way to Bethel?
Navigator Rangers are a non-denom-inational
group of evangelical young
people of college age, most of them yet
undergraduates, who attempt, as in their
motto, "to know Christ and to make Him
known." At Bethel for ten weeks this
summer (until Labor Day) they are try-ing
to do just that as they learn by en-gaging
in workshops and classes and as
they go to the airport, shopping centers
and the University of Minnesota to put
their knowledge to practical use.
The Navigator Ranger program is but
one division of the Navigator program
which was originated by Dawson Trotman
of Long Beach, Calif., before World War
II. Working with Bible studies and
junior high boys, Trotman eventually ex-panded
the program to the armed forces,
particularly the Navy. During the war
the Navigator program continued to grow
as it spread, person to person, ship to
ship. After the war, several returning
Navigators entered the mission field or
the ministry. Some began or returned
to school, and this is how the program
expanded to the college level.
These young people at Bethel want as
a group to help prepare the way for fur-thering
their organization's activities in
this area in the fall. On an individual
basis, they came for advanced knowledge
and training in personal evangelism and
for experience to help make that know-ledge
practical.
The young adults (twenty boys and
ten girls) and their eight advisors are
living in Bethel housing during their
stay. They come from all over the country
—California, Iowa, Virginia, Missouri,
and Texas are represented. There's even
one student, from a Canadian school,
whose home is in Scotland.
The thirty young people nave passed
a training program held earlier this sum-mer
in Nebraska where about two hun-dred
Navigtor Rangers met at two camps.
According to Chuck Hunt, their leader
and N.R. representative at Mankato State
College, "These surviving members are
the keener students of the first pro-gram."
Navigator Rangers are earning their
food and shelter at the college by work-ing
for the school during the mornings.
Apparently their performance in this
area is more than adequate in the opin-ion
of Glen Hayne, Bethel's Superinten-dent
of Buildings and Grounds. Hayne
reports that they have even devised me-thods
with which they can, for the bene-fit
of the school, perform their jobs more
rapidly.
Eric Borgeson, Bethel's f a v o r i t e
groundsman and flower-tender, heartily
agrees. "They're a fine group of young
people to work with—and they really
make sure I'm saved," he commented
enthusiastically.
After this morning activity, their af-ternoons
and evenings are spent in learn-ing
witnessing. Thus far, afternoon sem-inars
have included such topics as "How
Do You Clinch a Decision?," "Immediate
Follow-up," "Long-Range Follow-up,"
"How to Present Scripture Memory,"
"How to Lead in Evangelical Bible Study,"
and "How to Communicate." Evening
classes have included talks by such peo-ple
as Reverend Mickelson of Bethel
Seminary and others concerning such
topics as the 1st Book of Romans, Church
history, and revivals.
(see cover photo)
Witnessing too, is normally a part of
the daily schedule. The Navigator Ran-gers
emphasize man-to-man ministry.
And, as member Denny Woods of Iowa
State says, "If we merely keep adding
converts, we will never beat the popu-lation.
We want things to multiply and
spread. We would like to try for a
geometric progression."
Arrangements have been made for
Christian Businessmen in town to clq
follow-up work. So far seventy-five peo-ple
have accepted Christ. And, according
to leader Hunt, objectives of developing
the heart, vision, and know-how in get-ting
the gospel to the world and pre-paring
for the same in any follow-up are
being met.
A successful program? Yes, according
to its leader. But just why did some
young adults decide to join it? After all,
perhaps some summer fun is being lost
and certainly summer money is not be-ing
earned.
Lenny Spense, a student at North Da-kota
State University, and Carrie Bra-num,
a college graduate teaching at
Standish Elementary School in Minneap-olis,
had answers for that question. Ac-cording
to Lenny, "I feel it was God's
will because He supplied finances for
the coming school year and also elimi-nated
my job committment." As for Car-rie,
"I know God wants me to be a wit-ness
for Him. All I've needed is the ex-perience
and know-how. That's why God
has used this program in my life."
Fellow students,
As classes begin again, I, as Student Association President, would
like to welcome all students to campus, particularly those of you who
are new.
Perhaps you've already found out that Bethel is not what you
expected. To my knowledge, Bethel offers more freedom than any
other Christian school, particularly freedom of thought.
This freedom has its negative side as well. You have the freedom
to not know your faculty as personal fr'ends, the freedom to remain
close-minded on any subject you choose, the freedom to not participate,
the freedom, in fact, to miss nearly all of the resources, 'personal and
otherwise, available at Bethel.
From another angle, Bethel is only as Christian as its students
(and its students only as Christian as they honestly wish to be).
The initiative is yours al2d mine: personally, I wouldn't have it
any other way.
Speaking, then, for both myself and Rick Berggren (as Vice-Presi-dent,
he is temporarily president of the freshman class), we welcome
you to Bethel and hope -- really! that we can meet each of you
individually.
Peace,
Dave Shupe
Student Association President
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guest editorial
Keeping the wonder
by Dr. Edwin L. Groenhoff
assoc. prof. of education
At 9:56 P.M., July 20, 1969, I was sitting, like so many others throughout the
world, before a T.V. screen. The room was the chapel of the camp where
was speaking, and television sets had been brought in so that the campers could
witness the moon walk.
When Armstrong reached the bottom of the ladder I glanced around the
room to see the reactions of the high schoolers. There were those, of course,
who were intently watching every move made by the astronauts. They cheered
when the LEM touched down, and laughed and slapped each other on the back
when Armstrong set his foot on lunar soil.
But there were others. Some couples were sitting in the shadows oblivious, not
only to the lunar walk, but to everyone around them. Others were staring blankly
at the screen with no visible emotion. Some were talking and exchanging quibs
with their neighbors, and in the distance I could hear others playing ping•pong,
and shuffleboard.
In the school year before us many new exciting wonders will be communicated
to us. Some will come through reading, others through interaction with a professor,
and still others will come in some creative moment of our own. Judging from past
experience, our reactions to these wonders will be similar to those of my teen-age
friends at camp.
There will be those this year who will become so involved and excited over
their new found knowledge that every day will be a new and exciting experience.
For others this year will provide only another social experience in which there will
be opportunity to laugh, play, and love. And there will be still others who will
never get involved. There will be "outside playing" while all the excitement is
going on inside.
And the same will be true in our Christian experience here at Bethel. The
wonders of Calvary come to us daily in chapel, in the classroom, and in our
own private devotions. The "greatest story ever told" will continue to elicit love,
wonder, and amazement from some of us. Others will look upon these experinces
as simply routine — something to be endured. Still others will never get with
it spiritually. They will be "outside playing" all the time.
Whether it is a new bit of knowledge, or another look at the wonders of
the God who loved us, part of the joy of living comes in retaining the
warm excitement of it all. What we get out of this year, intellectually and
spiritually, will largely be determined by our ability to retain the wonder of
it all. It is our God "which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and
wonders without number." (Job 9:10).
CAMPUS PROZAIESS
What's going on at the Seminary Campus this
summer (construction pictured above is from last May).
What's the word on College relocation to Arden Hills?
What's the story at Bethel's "old" campus? For the
answer to these questions plus other happenings and
hopes of the summer, see "A Tale of Three Campuses"
on p. 11.
Twin Cities host
`U.S. Congress
On Evangelism'
Concurrent with Bethel's Welcome
Week this year is the U. S. Congress on
Evangelism in Minneapolis. The Con-gress,
which will be an extensive view
of "The Church in Action" featured in
"How-to-do it" groups, is designed to
demonstrate new ideas and methods in
evangelism.
The first such Congress was held in
Berlin in November 1966. Since then
Congresses have been conducted in Afri-ca,
Australia and other parts of Europe
with the most recent in Singapore.
According to national chairman, Dr.
Oswald C. J. Hoffmann of St. Louis, Mo.,
the goal of the Congress "is to send the
pastors, laymen and evangelists back
to their parishes and fields of service
loaded with an unlimited number of new
ideas and methods on how to get the
job done."
Sponsors of the Congress expect an
attendance of eight thousand pastors,
laymen, evangelists and denominational
executives. Representatives from more
than one hundred denominations have
been invited.
Sessions, which will be held in the
Minneapolis Auditorium and other loca-tions
within walking distance, include
four worshop categories these being la-boratories,
training classes, practicums
and symposia.
The general program resume' is as
follows. The Congress officially convenes
Monday, September 8th at 7:30 P.M.
with Dr. Billy Graham presiding and
extending the welcome and Dr. Oswald
C. J. Hoffmann giving the keynote ad-dress.
September 9th the evening program
includes a witness by athletes, the Kins-folk
sings and an address by Evangelist
Tom Skinner. Wednesday the evening
address will be given by Keith Miller.
Thursday's evenhg, session includes a
dramatic black light presentation "Blow-in'
in the Wind", the New Pace Singers
and an address by Evangelist Ford Phil-pot.
Friday night which is youth night,
the New Hope Singers will be present
and Dr. Myron Augsburger will address
the assembly. The Congress will conclude
Saturday, September 13th in a Public
Evangelistic Rally at the Sports Center
and an address by Dr. Billy Graham.
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REGISTRATION CALENDAR
Wednesday, Sept. 3
8:00 a.m. Orientation Conference for
all New Students—Room 106
Administration Building
9:00 a.m. Registration for All new stu-dents
begins—Gymnasium
Thursday, Sept. 4
8:30 a.m. Registration for returning stu-dents
whose last names begin
with A-H—Gymnasium
1:00 p.m. Registration for returning
students whose last names be-gin
with I-R—Gymnasium
8:30 a.m. Registration for returning stu-dents
whose last names be-gin
with S-Z—Gymnasium
Bethel Forum
May 26, 1969
To the Editor:
Just wanted you to know how much
I enjoyed the last issue of the Clarion.
It must have entailed a tremendous
amount of work! The format is exciting.
Thank you.
Junet Runbeck
Chairman of the
Education Dep't.
(Editor's note: Thank you for noticing!
Actually, the "Reflections 1968-69" is-sue
and this "Summer Spectrum" issue
were experiments in time and financing.
It has not been definitely decided
whether the new format will be perma-nently
adopted.)
EDITORS NEEDED—Desperately!!
The Communications Board is look-ing
for an editor for this year's Spire,
as well as an editor for this semes-ter's
CLARION. Students interested
in the positions should contact Stan-ley
Anderson, chairman of the de-partment
of philosophy.
THE CLARION
Published weekly during the academic year,
except during vacation and examination periods,
the students of Bethel Collee, St.
Minn. 55101. Subscription rate $4 per year.
Editor-in-chief Margie Whaley
SUMMER STAFF:
Pat Faxon, Dave Greener, Marie Watson,
Dave Frykman, Wally Borner, and Sharon
Watson.
Opinions expressed in the CLARION do not neces-rarily
reflect the position of the college or seminary.
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Don't let 'Whadjoget?' get you down
Bethel staff members discuss 'grades'
by Marjorie M. Rusche
A weighty factor in student unrest across the nation seems
to be dissatisfaction with the whole educational system, but
particularly current methods of evaluating a student's work
in a course.
A recent editorial in Moderator magainze by Temple Uni-versity
professor Sidney Simson, who did away with grades last
year and may lose his job as a result, prompted the Clarion to
a random survey of its faculty members on the "grade" issue.
In Dean Virgil Olson's opinion, grades provide both a posi-tive
and negative effect on students. Olson stated, "Grades
provide goals for directional achievement; however, they also
can place a false standard on educational achievement, es-pecially
in cases where students study for the sake of grades,
not for the sake of learning." He noted it is difficult to
equate individual differences in a structured way — the
people who fit the structure achieve.
For Bethel, Dean Olson would favor a pass-fail evaluation
system for certain types of smaller classes in upper-division
areas where students are already conditioned to a college-type
of thinking and study. However, Olson would oppose a
complete across-the-board pass-fail system.
James Bragg, financial aids director, stated that grades
are a threat to students, and that often students who are
caught up in competition for grades don't have time for an
education.
Bragg did not particularly care for a pass-fail system,
but rather favored a pass/no pass method where students can
take a course as many times as they want until satisfactorily
completed without the negative effects a failure would have
on a student's G.P.A.
Bragg felt the European system of education — where a
student attends classes, takes tests at his own discretion
until he feels it is time for him to take his comprehensive
exams that are required for a degree — has merits. This
makes learning a very independent kind of thing. However,
class discussion suffers. States Bragg, "I like the idea of
classroom interaction. The process is just as important as
the knowledge."
Dean Donald Rainbow felt grades provide a definite
incentive to accomplish the assigned tasks of a course. If the
course is structured properly, hopefully the result is learning.
"Grades can have negative effects," Rainbow stated. "An
individual's self-concept could be lowered if a student feels
he has learned something in a course and receives a low grade."
Rainbow would like to see a student have the option of
doing 1/4 of his college work on a pass-fail basis. These
courses would not be from the student's major field and
could be a combination of upper-division courses and required
courses.
Dr. Al Glenn of the Christianity department thinks grades
are something the student gets used to and learns to live
with; but they sometimes have a traumatic effect on students.
Glenn didn't approve of the idea of a pass-fail system.
He wants to retain some way of distinguishing superior stu-dents
from those who just pass. However, Glenn felt a pass/
no pass system would be acceptable in certain cases.
Richard Steinhaus in the Sociology department felt grades
forced a student to work, but do not necessarily indicate
how much a student learns. "Grades put students under undue
stress," Steinhaus stated. "However, one may wonder whether
a person can learn without stress," he added.
Steinhaus expressed a desire for more pass/fail type courses
at Bethel. He felt the pass/fail system would hold the advan-tages
of allowing the teachers to know which students are
here to learn seriously, prevent last-minute cramming for a
grade, allow students more freedom in studying in different
areas of a course. Steinhaus stated, "Pass-fail would benefit
students since it would be geared to the students more as
individuals, not channeling them all into the same mold."
Drawbacks of pass-fail would be the difficulties encountered
in transcripts for other educational institutions, particularly
gradudate schools. Steinhaus noted, "You have problems be-cause
Bethel does not stand apart from society."
Dr. Roy Dalton, chairman of the history department, be -
lieves the effect of grades are as varied as students are varied.
"Freshmen come to Bethel for many reasons, and grades are
a necessary evil to motivate freshmen to study," he said.
On the other hand, Dalton expressed, some students are
grade-happy and over-anxious, see nothing else of college but
grades, use grades to measure their relationship to a facul-ty
member, and neglect other aspects of the educational ex-perience.
Dalton would favor a pass/no pass system on a limited basis
for upper-division students in areas outside of their major
to encourage dabbling in some other areas of study.
Dwight Jessup, political science professor, considers
grades a "necessary evil" since our whole system is set up on
the basis of competition. Grades lead to a last-minute cram-ming,
which is not a good learning experience.
Jessup would favor trying more pass/no pass courses as
a real experiment — not just instituting once course at a time
which would put a student in the situation of having only
one pass/no pass course and the pressure of four of five
graded courses.
Jon Fagerson, English professor thinks grades get
the student to do "the work." Fagerson feels grades lead
students to assume that "success," i.e. good grades, is the
goal in college, rather than learning. Grades can undermine
the student's power of self-evaluation, he noted.
In response to the question of approving or not approving
of pass/no pass courses, Fagerson succintly stated, "Yep."
Dr. Chris Weintz, chairman of the English department,
stated grade evaluations of any kind are not justified unless
they beneficially serve the students learning needs. They
also must be pedagogically justifiable, he said.
This attitude is reflected in the required freshman English
course, literary analysis. No tests are given. A student's
progress is indicated by his verbal expression through speak-ing
and writing. The grade for the registrar is arrived at
mutually by the student and his instructor. This gives the
student a better understanding of the value of self-examination.
Weintz stated: "One's profession or calling in life ultimately
will judge the individual student. It is our job now in college
to best prepare him for that time of judgment. And self-judgment,
in my estimation, is the most long-lasting kind of
judgment we can hope the student will impose upon himself."
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9:25 A.M. and 6:40 P.M.
Summer scatters Bethel community--
Bethelites packed their bags and head-ed
in many different directions and to
many different activities this summer,
according to a CLARION poll taken near
the end of the school year.
Miscellaneous employment
For those who are spending their sum-mer
working, there are a great variety
of jobs ��� everything from lumberjacks
and construction crews to camp counsel-ing.
Don Cervin, along with Dean Gibson
and Dave Martin of the Seminary are
spending the summer in Issaquah, Wash.,
as lumberjacks. Marlys Dick can be found
as a governess to a young girl in the Twin
Cities. Parnell kingsley is employed with
the Walf are Agency, and Bob Bryant is
filling the post of teller at the Los An-geles
main office of the Bank of America
in California. Bob Hill and Jim Duddle-sten
are working on construction crews.
For the gir:s, secretarial work seems
to be foremost. Pat Keim is on the
office staff at Mt. Hermon Association in
Mt. Hermon, California. Lois Bjork is
helping to hold down the fort in the
Bethel Student Services office. Norma
Wi'cox is serving as Assistant Secretary
at Scripture Press Publications, Inc. at
Wheaton, Ill. About a dozen Bethel stu-dents
are employed in the business of-fices
at St. Paul Ramsey Hospital.
Some Bethelites are doing summer
counseling or teaching in Bible Schools
across the country. Tim Gibson is at
Young Life Frontier Ranch. Jane Heiman
is a staff member. for Campus Crusade in
Arrowhead Springs, California. Karen
Richards is a counselor at Hilltop Ranch,
Colora, Md. Dean Ericson is driving a
truck for YMCA Camp Warren. Vic Verni
is at Young Life Camp. Marge and Wayne
Ericson returned to Camp Warren where
Wayne is head cook.
Other activities include teaching at the
St. Paul Rehabilitation Center. for Sharon
Anderson, working on a ranch for Wayne
Dvirnak, drivers instructor for AAA of
Minneapolis for Warren Withrow, and
filling the position of general manager
of Insul, Inc. for Mike Scandrett.
And it may not be called work, but
Bill Carlson has spent most of his sum-mer
in preparation for the 1969 Inter-national
Surfing Championship. Joseph
L. Morgan of Anchorage, Alaska, joined
the Commercial Salmon Fishing Industry
at Bristol Bay, Alaska, in June and July
and now is a subsitute missionary at
Sand Point Chapel , in Sand Point, Alas-ka.
Tom Swanson also returned to Alaska
where he has been working in a ware-house
and dealing with forest fire fight-ing
equipment.
It has been a busy summer for Dave
Shupe, Shudent Asssociation President.
In June Dave and his wife, Della, attend-ed
the Toranto Institute of Linguistics
where Dave was a staff member and
Della worked in the library. He also at-tended
the 24th Annual Student Leader-ship
Institute on World Affairs at Sarah
Lawrence College in New York City.
Dave was enrolled in the second sesion
of summer school at Macalaster College
during July.
Travel
Traveling also seems to be a popular
activity. Sandy Adams was to participate
in a study tour with Gordon College of
Mass. The tour traced the path of the
Protestant reformers. A missionary train-ing
course to Nicaragua with trips
through Mexico, El Salvador, and Guate-mala,
was to highlight Pam Nordell's
snmmer. Prior to Rolland Schearer's
Student Missionary trip to Venzuela,
he planned to visit an Arazona ranch.
Harley Hanson planned to take a three-week
vacation to Africa with his parents
to visit missionaries and travel through
game reserves. Doug Carlson was to
travel through Europe.
Marriage
Highlighting the summer activity for
many is marriage. Those who have been
and will be married this summer include
the following: Donna Sue Cambell to
Warren Withrow and Janet Watson to
Richard Burns, May 31; Kathy Cotton to
David Simmons, June 10; Marcia Seburg
to Sid Featherstone and Joy Whaley to
Steven Doornbos, June 13; Sheila Spain
to William A. Goodwin, and Barb Con-way
to Dennis Lee Smith, June 14; Har-riet
Norgren to Steven D. Anderson, June
21; Marlys Dick to Cody Crandall, Aug.
1; Lyndia Ke!son to Barry Johnson and
Jane Schlaeppi to Robert Wi'ey, Aug. 2;
Joanne Halvorson to Ken Smith and Bev
Swenson to Dick Schultz, Aug. 8; Carol
Harris to Raymond Harder, Aug. 9; Na-omi
DeJong to Dean L. Ericson, Aug. 16;
Susan Button to Jon Christian, Aug 22;
Katherine Anderson to Vic Verni and
Kay Bowman to Vaugn Ekbom, Aug. 23;
Kathleen Lofgren to Wayne Nelson, Aug.
30; and Shirley Bruns to Val Cudnoski,
Sept. 6.
Summer School
For some of the more industrions stu-dents,
summer scchool or extra courses
were on the agenda. Warren Magnuson
planned to take two courses at the Uni-versity
of Illinois at Chicago Circle. Mary
Ellen Stevens planned to attend summer
school at Wisconsin State Uunvers'ty,
River Falls. Attending Classes at the
Uuiversity of Minnesota are Bette J. Mon-son
and Julie Stromberg.
Seniors
Seniors are looking forward to many
interesting and varied occupations.
G:enn Johnson planned on working in his
home town of Marinette, Wisc. for the
summer and in the fall to pursue his mas-ters
degree in history. John Tuttle 'and
his wife planned to move to Carlton,
Minn. where he will begin teaching
reading and spelling to elementary school
children this fall. Stan Youngberg and
his wife were looking forward to assist-ing
in a church at Gothenberg, Neb. for
the summer. In the fall he will start
seminary. David Wicklund plans to enter
Bethel Theological Seminary in the fall.
Susan Lewis Peterson and Janice Fjeld-heim
plan to begin grad school at the
U of M to work on masters degree in
music. Priscilla Solstad plans graduate
work at Madison at the University of
VAsconsin. Dale Saxon is looking for-ward
to continuing his work at Bethel
Seminary. Vaugn Ekbom will be back
in school as a math teacher in Humboldt
High School beginning in August. Ines
Bowers, after a trip to Vermont, plans to
work in the library and teach next fall.
Gary Fairall entered the Air Force in
June. Jeff Loomis, after travelling in
Europe this summer, plans to pursue
graduate work in comparative literature
at the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill. Marge Lachler planned to
attend the intersession at Wheaton, leav-ing
for Brazil in mid July where her
husband will teach in the new lay insti-six
AT ESTES PARK ANNUAL CONVENTION
Bethel students who were selected to represent the college at various
activities of the Estes Park (Colo.) Annual Conference were Dale Saxon
(standing), Fred Swedberg, Jackie Goodman and Julie Amelsberg.
students, faculty and staff members
tute in Sao Paulo. They will both be in-volved
in inter-varsity camps preparing
Brazilian leaders. And Lynn Bergfalk
plans to attend Yale University Divinity
School in the fall.
Bethel faculty and staff members have
also been involved in myriad activities
this summer.
Summer School
Patricia Brownlee attended the Campus
Crusade for Christ's Institute of Biblical
Studies at Arrowhead Springs, Calif.,
for five weeks; Robert Carlsen, Univer-sity
of Arizona; Margaret Dewey, Gerald
Healy, Dwight Jessup, Stewart Luckman,
Paul Mauger, Lillian Ryberg and David
Whitney, University of Minnesota; Royal
Bloom, teaching at Indiana University;
Donald Larson, serving as principal of
the Toronto Institute of Linguistics, lec-turing
to short-term missionaries of the
Southern Baptist Convention in Tennes-see
and then at the Instituto de Lengua
Espanola in Costa Rica.
Annual Conference
Present at the annual meetings of the
Baptist General Conference in Estes Park
were Stanley Anderson, Robert Carlsen
Olaf Olsen, Junet Runbeck, Howard
Smith, Julius Whitinger and David Whit-ney.
Junet Runbeck, Whitinger and
Whitney also were workshop leaders at
the Christian Education Congress pre-ceding
the Conference. Edwin Groenhoff
attended the annual conference of the
Evangelical Free Church in Ocean Grove,
N.J.
Summer Camps and Christian Service
Carol Christensen is co-director of the
Calvary-New Hope Vacation Bible School
in August; Paul Finlay, Bible teacher at
Big Trout Lake Family Camp; Al Glenn,
interim pastor at Brooklyn Center Bap-tist
Church; Ed Groenhoff, speaker at
the Mt. Herman Bible Conference in
Calif., at Camp Shamineau in Motley,
Minn., and at the Rocky Mountain Free
Church Camp near Estes Park; Russell
Johnson, camp naturalist for a week at
Camp Burton, Ohio; Oliver Mogck, music
director at Asbury Camp in North Da-kota
and on the faculty of the church
music camp at Lake Arrowhead, Minn.;
Carol Morgan, director of the Girls'
Camp at Wheaton's Honey Rock Camp
in Wisconsin; Maurice Shields, camp ad-ministrator
at Center Lake Bible Camp
at Tustin, Mich.; Howard Smith, will lec-ture
at Camp Burton, Ohio at the Labor
Day Week End Church Music Camp;
W. Robert Smith, on a world tour, the
first appointment being in Iceland and
the last two in Guam and Hawaii; Jack
Trager, Day Camp supervisor at White
Bear Lake for the YMCA; Heidi Wait-schies,
counselor at a church camp in
Montana for a week in June.
Special Projects
Philip Carlson and Richard Harris are
co-directors of a three-week workshop
sponsored by Bethel and funded by the
National Science Foundation on "Imple-mentation
of Elementary School Science
and Mathematics Curricular"; Arthur
Lewis, spending two months in Portugal
as SPAN advisor, assisting university stu-dents
with special academic research
projects; Paul Mauger, involved in super-vised
clinical experience and work at
Hennepin County General Hospital and
the University of Minnesota Medical
Center in connection with his doctoral
program; Paul Redin, working with the
Minnemast group at th eUniversity.
James Rodgers, involved in chemical re-search
under Dr. Stanley J. Cristol at the
University of Colorado at Boulder under
an N.S.F. grant; Junet Runbeck, went on
a West African Study Tour and attended
meetings of the World Assembly of the
international Council on Education for
Teaching and the World Confederation
of Organizations of the Teaching Pro-fession
in Abidjan.
Research and Writing
Several teachers who are in the final
stages of their doctoral programs and
are spending the summer in research
and writing of their dissertations include
Startiey Anderson, Jeanine Bohlmeyer,
Philip Carlson, Elliott Donnels, Eugene
Glader, Rolland Hein, James Mason,
Chris Weintz and Julius Whitinger; Jon
Fagerson, Gene Peterson and Richard
Ward have been studying for oral pre-lims;
Robert Berglund is working on a
book in Church Music and writing and
arranging music to be published by
Schmitt, Hall McCreary of Minneapolis;
Edwin Groenhoff is working on a book
on the History of Teacher Education
in the United States; Don Larson is doing
final editorial work on a book entitled,
Becoming Bilingual; Art Lewis is doing
research in the Phonician Influence on
the Ibernian Peninsula out of which will
come a journal article and teaching ma-terial:
Olaf Olsen will be doing research
in nineteenth-century British religious
history and possible mining of an article
from his doctoral research material; and
Walter Wessel planned to spend three
weeks with the General Editorial Com-mittee
of the New Bible Translation, of-ficial
designated as A Contemporary
Translation.
Professional Meetings
Al Glenn planned to attend the Con-temporary
Theology Institute on "The
Structure of Theology" in Montreal this
month; Oliver Mogck attended the sum-mer
workshop of the National Associa-tion
of Teachers of Singing at St. Cloud.
Heidi Waitschies is attending the EPDA
Institute in German at the University
of Minnesota this month; and Walter
Wessel attended the Summer Institute
on Judaism at Vanderbilt University.
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Bethel News Bits
Accredation Renewal Granted
NEW DORM PARENTS
Taking over the dorm "mother" vacancies in Hagstrom and Edgren
Dorms this year are, respectively, Mrs. Amanda Almer and Mr. and Mrs.
Howard Engnell. "Mom" Almer is the widow of the late Rev. Carl A.
Almer, Lutheran chaplain and pastor who held several pastorates in
the Minnesota area and most recently lived at Mobile, Ala. Howard (a
senior seminarian at Bethel) and Grace Engnell and their one-year-old
and two-week-old sons will be the "first family" at Edgren.
Bethel College has received renewal
of its North Central Accreditation, as
a result of the visit paid by a re-evalua-tion
team from the North Central Ac-crediting
agency last March.
Pregident Carl Lundquist and Dean
Virgil Olson met this summer with the
Sub-committee of the Commission on
Colleges and Universities in Chicago for
the final stage of the once-every-ten-years
re-evaluation.
Officials said the purpose of the meet-ing
was to discuss Bethel's policies in
general and some of the problems it
faces. Among the topics discussed were
the salary of faculty members and their
recruitment, policies regarding selection
of the college dean and future policy re-garding
federal funds and the admissions
program. Particular attention was direct-ed
to plans for recruiting minority and
underprivileged students.
No conditions or commitments were
formally required or agreed upon, col-lege
officials said.
A number of the faculty will not be
returning to Bethel next year for various
reasons.
Royal Bloom, Director of testing and
instructor in psychology, plans, as was
previously announced, to retire this year.
His plans for the future include nothing
New counselor
In response to last year's plea for im-proved
counseling services for students,
college officials recently announced that
Mr. Lee Bajuniemi will return to Bethel
this fall.
Bajuniemi left Bethel to continue grad-uate
work at the University of Minnesota
in the spring of 1968 after serving as
instructor of psychology and assistant
Dean of Students for the second semester
of the 1966-67 school year and the entire
academic year of 1967--68.
He is a graduate of Bethel College and
is now a candidate for a PhD in counsel-ing.
Mr. Bajuniemi will be at Bethel part
time and will occupy an office in the
front portion of Psychology House.
definite as yet, except that he taught
statistics in the Graduate School at In-diana
University during the summer
session.
Mary Sodergren, instructor in Eng-lish,
will take a vacation from teaching
this coming year as she and her husband
plan to receive an addition to their fa-mily
in September. They will remain the
houseparents at Pascal Manor while her
husband, Arnold Sodergren, continues
working toward his doctorate in bio-chemistry.
Carol Christensen, reference librarian,
will remain at Bethel part time in the
evenings. She has been active in the
New Hope Baptist Church, a St. Paul
church with a Black congregation, and
plans a greater involvement in the "inner
city" area to occupy her time and ef-forts
next year.
Carol Morgan from the department of
physical education has spent her sum-mer
as director of Honey Rock Girls
Camp and in the fall will finish work
on her masters degree at Colorado State
College in Greeley.
From the sociology department, Paul
Andrusko will be leaving to start work
on his doctorate this fall. His plans are
somewhat undecided as yet.
Garth Roselle, a temporary replace-ment
for Jim Johnson, American his-tory
professor, who is on sabbatical this
year, will not be returning to Bethel
next year. He will be gOing out East
for the summer and early fall to do
research on his doctoral dissertatiOn on
early 19th century American history.
Elliott Donnels, associate professor of
education, also will not return in the
fall. At present, his plans for the future
are not formulated.
Seven leave Bethel's faculty
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MRS WHITCOMB'5
COUNTRY STORE
Summer's performing arts draws crowd
Sabbaticals New Dorm plans first social - Luau
Two Bethel faculty members who are
planning to take sabbaticals during the
next school term will be working on pro-jects
right in this area.
Miss Lillian Ryberg, chairman of the
department of foreign languages, will
be working on studies at the University
of Minnesota. She will be studying for-eign
language research.
It is conceivable, Miss Ryberg said,
that she also might be doing some study-ing
in Mexico. She is currently on a com-mittee
working with Spanish teachers on
the problems of teaching Spanish in the
Minnesota schools.
Dr. Walter Wessel, chairman of the
department of Christianity, is taking his
sabbatical during the first semester only.
He will be working on two books. One
is a college text on the epistle to the
Romans and the other is a commentary
on the epistle of James at the Univer-sity
of Edinburgh in Scotland.
by Marie Watson
Performing arts on campus this
summer were confined to a single
event when a crowd about 250-
strong turned out to see a produc-tion
by the Simpson Street Players.
The college auditorium adopted
the atmosphere of an old-fashioned
country store as a group of neigh-borhood
children, ranging from
age three to thirteen, performed
the operetta, "Mulligan's Magic"
by Alta Halvorson and He:en Wing.
Mrs. Gerald (Millie)) Healy, a
Bethel student and wife of Profes-
A Hawaiian luau awaits both returning
residents as well as malahinis to Bethel's
New Dormitory in Arden Hills. A "feast"
and "festivities" have been planned for
Friday, September 5, the New Dorm's
first social event.
The luau will have a menu that in-cludes
ham in buns, baked potatoes, corn
on the cob, punch, and plenty of fresh
fruit. It will be an occasion designed to
welcome the residents to their home
away from home.
During the evening some of the diners
will become entertainers. Greetings, in-troductions
and words concerning the
upcoming year are also scheduled. The
affair will be a time for students to
renew old acquaintances and make new
ones.
The purpose of the evening is to
enhance unity and pride amonge the
sor Healy of the English depart-ment,
is director of the group. She
was inspired with the idea six
years ago while watching a child-ren's
operatic group perform at a
Junior-Senior Banquet. This was the
fifth year children and parents in
the neighborhood persuaded Mrs.
Healy to stage another production
ike their first.
Admission charged for the event
goes toward a donation to Camp
Courage for physically handicapped
children. This summer's afternoon
and evening performance netted
about $50, Mrs. Healy said.
New Dorm's 120 residents. Dorm Presi-dent,
Rod Larson stated in a recent
newsletter to this year's residents„ "This
year at the dorm we are going to try
to create an atmosphere of unity. We
would like everyone on the 'other cam-pus'
to know that we are from The Dorm
and that we are proud of the fact!"
MARK KINGSBECK
WBCS adds studio
In the lower level of Bethel's adminis-tration
building, the end product of
hours of summer labor will be an
expansion of Bethel radio station studios
to enhance new programming and ad-ditional
broadcasting hours.
Mark Kingsbeck, WBCS station mana-ger,
and several other staff members
have been spending their summer even-ings
continuing the station remodeling
that began last spring. When school
convenes, WBCS will boast a new re-cording
studio along with two other
studios, one for news and the other for
most of the broadcasting.
WBCS radio will be on the air 18
hours a day, from 6 a.m. to midnight,
Kingsbeck said. Programming for the
18-hour day will include various types
of music with news, talk shows, specials,
sporting events, chapel messages, lectures
and dramatic stories.
The station plans to continue its CCR
(Contemporary Christian Radio) type pro-gramming
that it originated last school
year.
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Twelve new faces among fulltime faculty
by Pat Faxon
Among the new members joining Beth-ing
Bethel's faculty this fall are twelve
fulltime professors, according to infor-mation
received from the dean's office.
One newcomer as a full time faculty
member is James Treece who taught
part time at Bethel last year. He will
join the sociology department full time
this fall. Treece is a former Bethel
graduate and is presently finishing work
on his doctoral degree at the University
of Minnesota. -Since graduating from
Bethel he has taught at St. Paul
Bible College, South Dakota State uni-ervsity,
and Anchor School of Nursing.
Also joining the social sciences depart-ment
is Dr. Justin Abraham. Dr. Abra-ham
is classified as a visiting assistant
professor of sociology. He will be teach-ing
courses in economics and assisting
in the anthropology department. Abra-ham
is a native of India where he re-ceived
his doctorate. While in this coun-try,
he has been teaching at Stephen's
College, and while here at Bethel Col-lege,
he will be studying theology at
Bethel Seminary.
The English department will be re-ceiving
Mr. James Anderion as an in-structor
in English in replacement of
Mrs. Sodergren who will not return next
fall. Anderson received his masters de-gree
from the University of Northern
Iowa and has been teaching at Iowa Lakes
Community College at Estherville, Iowa.
Replacing Miss Lillian Ryberg, who will
be on sabbatical this coming year, will be
Leon Narvaez. Narvaez is a graduate of
the University of Minnesota and has been
teaching at Kearney State College in
Kearney, Nebraska.
Another new member in the language
department will be Gerard Laroche.
Laroche, who received his masters de-gree
in French from Roosevelt Univer-sity
in Illinois, is coming to Bethel. from
Southwest High School in Minneapolis.
He is a graduate of both Bethel College
and Seminary.
The political science division of the
history department is also receiving an
addition. Dr. William Johnson who has
been teaching both graduate and under
graduate courses at the University of
Northern Illinois will be adding a new
dimension to political science at Bethel.
Johnson received his doctorate from
Claremont Graduate School in Claremont,
Calif.
In the Christianity department, Dr.
Robert Stein who received his doctorate
in theology from Princeton Theological
Seminary, will replace Dr. Robert Mounce
who left several years ago. Stein will
teach New Testament courses.
Steven Terrell will be the new addi-tion
to the speech department. Terrell
is a professional actor who has worked
for CBS and received his masters degree
in directing and playwriting at California
State College in Fullerton, Calif. He has
taught at Biola College in Mirada, Calif.,
and will be a professor of speech and
drama at Bethel next year.
There will also be an addition to the
art department in the person of George
Robinson. Robinson whose specialty is
graphic arts, is now at the Hartford
Art School at the University of Hartford
in Connecticut.
Thomas Goff who is presently teach-ing
in the biology department on a part
time basis will return to Bethel full
time this fall. He will be replacing Jack
Buss who left Bethel in 1968. Goff
is in the process of finishing his work
on his doctorate degree at the Univer-sity
of Minnesota.
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A tale of three campuses
(Editor's Note: What has been happening at Bethel's cam-puses
— (new college, seminary, and old campus) — this
summer? What is the newest word on college relocation
plans? A CLARION reporter spent some time recently dis-cussing
these situations with college officials.)
by Dave Greener
A decade ago a decision was made — a decision to follow
a dream. Part of that dream was to relocate Bethel's college
and to build it anew in Arden Hills, with a target completion
goal of 1971, Bethel's centennial year.
College Relocation Plans Altered
, However, another decision made early this summer may
not necessarily alter that "target" but it is expected to affect
the nature of the "payload." While relocation may still occur
in 1971, it will not be in the manner previously hoped for.
Late last June the Board of Regeants concluded that a
number of factors have combined to make the 1971 target
date impractical, according to Harvey DeVries, vice president
of public affairs.
At the same time, architects for the new college campus
were given free rein to continue the idea of "phasing," a re-location
measure where moving is done in stages instead of
simultaneously.
This recent decision — a rude awakening for some people
but the manisfestation of realistic expectations for others —
was based on multitudinous factors, and many of these were
interrelating.
One decisive factor was revealed by Dr. Philip Carlson,
campus planning coordinator, as he pointed out that if com-plete
relocation were to be realized by 1971, it would cost
one-half million dollars a month, starting from August.
"Obviously, we can't begin with such a payment schedule
unless we foresee an income of one-half million dollars a
month," Carlson said.
Virgil Olson, vice president and dean of the college, who
is one of the chief idea men in new college campus matters,
explains that the flow of incoming money for the new campus
must be coordinated with the development of the building
program. Schedules of donors giving their contributions by
installments and the cost needs schedules of the college may
not always coincide.
Dean Olson also pointed out that the process of building
itself, the fact that there is not yet a contractor, and a
Conference change in scheduling of fund-raising activity can
be added to the list.
A number of other factor listed by Harvey DeVries, when
considered with the above, seem to almost make the Board
decision of "impractical" a weak indictment of the possibility
of achieving earlier hopes. As he reveals, the college is nearly
on schedule in some areas but there are also escalating costs,
tight money, an unavailability of adequate federal loan funds
(to be distinguished from federal grants) and a shortage of
commercial loan money as well.
No new commons this year
With such shortages, priority could not be given plans for
a commons area at the present new campus dormitory, let
alone the new college for 1200 students. About the only way
this hoped-for structure could be built, according to Burton
Wessman, Vice President of Business Affairs, would be if
cash or a pledge were coming in. Thus, although it was earlier
hoped to be built this year, the commons for the 120 students
at the new college campus will not be built, "unless," as
Wessman says, "there's an angel sitting someplace in the
wings."
If some things can not be accomplished, what then could
be done?
The Board is seriously considering "phasing" as the al-ternative
so that a central core portion of the new college
could be hopefully constructed for 1971. This development
might include the Arden Hills library, a dining area (with a
lounge above), a power plant, and more dormitories (there
would be no general classrooms in this phase but classes
could meet in parts of the library, for example).
Under such a plan, the college would actually be split
between two campuses, with art, music and science programs
remaining at the St. Paul campus and the others going to
Arden Hills.
When the dual situation arises, possibly, according to
Carlson, the old campus should be an all-freshman campus
and the new one for juniors and seniors. (The general programs
of most freshmen, of course, necessitate some large classes
while juniors and seniors usually are in the major area
stage of schooling, frequently with relatively small classes.)
A problem for Dr. Paul Finlay, Registrar and Director of
Admissions, who is testing the feasability of the move in
this area, is what to do then with sophomores, many of them
who are in an intermediate stage in relation to the others.
Another alternative to such a phasing plan is to construct
buildings on the new campus but leave them vacant for some
period.
But what ever happens, there is a good economic reason,
according to Carlson, for partial relocation new. As he ex-plains,
it _would be unwise for the school to let the two
million dollars it now has to remain unused. Because of
inflation, at present rates $200,000 dollars would be lost for
each year of the fund's dormancy. (It might be added that,
because of cost escalations and other reasons cited above,
"total" construction costs would presently be $4 million dollars
above the 1967 price.) But beyond this, some preliminaries
are already being taken care of and if the price is right and
if "phasing" can be done "without gross educational disad-vantages,"
the Board may well adopt it as a working plan.
So what remains? All-out despair? Hardly. In spite of fore-boding
adversities, DeVries could point to a fund-raising
program that has been remarkably successful. According to
him, total contributions in 1968-69 totaled $1,423,000. Further-
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more, DeVries states that Bethel ranks fifth in Minnesota
in terms of receiving contributional dollars. (One extreme
example is R. E. Ahlport of Laguna Beach, California, who
contributed $100,000 last June. Another is the anonymous
donor who made the present New Dormitory a reality.)
Also, according to DeVries, there has been an accumulation
of $11 million in assets in the last ten to fifteen years (beyond
costs). Furthermore, a local public relations firm has been
contracted to raise funds by soliciting from national corporate
businesses and foundations and general philanthropic asso-ciations.
(Prior to this, one similar association — the Otto
Breamer Foundation — awarded Bethel $45,000 for site im-provements
on the new campus. Specifically to athletic and
recreational purposes, this would include over three years a
practice football field and a ball diamond.)
DeVries also pointed out that in spite of heavy financial
considerations, Bethel has kept priorities in academic devel-opment.
He listed as evidence accreditation, the passing of
a review by NCATE, and general "considerable strengthening"
of the academic program.
So the difficult task of relocation is being worked on
right now. The best possible avenues for resources are being
sought.
On the planning end, Dr. Carlson wishes to make known
that he hopes students feel free to converse with him as he
welcomes questions and suggestions.
"It's going to take a great deal of cooperation and under-standing
so we don't lose sight of major goals because of
minor irritations," Dean Olson said.
Perhaps enough students will consider the end goal, the
dream of relocation to Arden's 216 acres of green hills, to be
worth it.
NEW BUILDINGS AT THE SEMINARY
While Bethel College was experiencing the rigors of
preparing for a new campus in Arden Hills, Bethel Seminary
saw the near-fulfillment of its planning as two buildings were
being added to the complex already there.
As the summer wore on, steel skeletons of a chapel and
a student union began to take more definite form as the
dull-red bricks were added to the steel network of supports.
"The whole outside effect of both buildings will be the
same as the ones already there," said Brian Morgan of
Architects Planners Inc., the firm which took over the job
from the original architectural designers.
According to Morgan, completion dates will be early Oct-ober
for the union and November 21 for the entire complex.
Problems have been encountered in this project too — "There
is a fantastic shortage of brick layers in the Twin Cities area,"
Morgan said.
The two new buildings will join a campus that was other-wise
primarily completed in 1965. This ends Seminary con-struction,
as envisioned for the near future at least.
The chapel will consist of a ground floor with a large
lecture room, a studio and control room, and a practice preach-ing
area. It is yet a question of choosing between chairs or
pews for seating.
On second floor, the chapel itself will include the usual
pulpit, baptistry, communion table and choir area.
The student union will include a ground lounge on first
floor, facilities for student dining, a kitchen, a bookstore, and
a mail room. Also a part of the two story building will be a
student government room, fireplace, faculty lounge and a
prayer room which will be as a circular drum in the middle
of a room with entrance elsewhere.
ACTIVITY ON THE OLD CAMPUS
For a campus that may be sold in but a few years, Bethel's
"old" St. Paul campus was not as dormant as might be
expected.
During the summer months, the campus that has been
school and/or home to hundreds of people was receiving its
annual extensive maintenance job.
Glen Hayne, superintendent of buildings and grounds,
shrugs off the summer as "nothing special," but returning
students will find several notable changes.
Partitioning has transformed the classroom in the language
house into two offices. The education house "back porch"
has been remodeled into an additional education library and
study area. The public affairs office has a little more space
since it was extended some into the print shop area.
Another major change is that the school-owned property at
1540 N. Snelling has been put into use as an office for the
director of admissions.
Hayne had about fifteen students working for him, as
well as three men who painted constantly during the entire
summer. Visiting Navigators also assisted with cleaning, re-painting,
revarnishing and resealing certain areas of campus
buildings. (See story, Page 1.)
FINANCIAL AIDS UP—
According to statistics recently com-piled
by Paul R. Finlay, Registrar, re-sources
available to students have risen
way out of proportion to educational
costs.
Since 1955, the cost of tuition, room
and board (fees also included) has risen
from $300 a year to $1975 or 147 percent.
During the same period, the amount of
financial aids available to students (in-cludes
all forms of assistance listed in
the catalog has risen from $5,500 to
$553,400 or 9960 percent. Most of the
increase in financial aids has come
from government assistance, he noted.
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The Bethel fieldhouse has been relatively empty
this summer except for an occasional custodian or foot-ball
player. But slowly, activity will begin to pick up
as more football players came to town and as another
school year eclipses a summer of unfinished ideas,
till* etc.
The football team will be getting together soon for
their training camp in which they will try to cram con-ditioning
and learning the offense and defense into
a couple short weeks before their first contest against
Macalester on Saturday, Sept. 6 at their stadium.
Macalester beat Bethel with a young team last year
and can be expected to be much stronger. Our other St.
Paul foe, Hamline, will come at us with a pro prospect
in quarterback Larry Hegerle.
Senior Murray Sitte will be prime contender for the
quaterback job this season. The offense should be about
the same as last year, and the defense should be im-proved.
A healthy season from Tom Molin should bol-ster
the Royals pass rush and keep the opposing offens-es
in the hold a little more often. Probably the two
most important ingredients for a good season, how-ever,
will be added experience and confidence.
Last year's cross country team had a very good
year but this season will have some holes to fill. Coach
Gene Glader will be looking for some hard-working
freshman to build a good squad.
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The soccer team will try to get into good physical
condition earlier this year. The team will be basically
unchanged from last year and should provide good
competition for Bethany Lutheran of Mankato in its
opening game on Septe*m b*e r *20 .*
Bob Brodin and Bill Painter will be sharing top
duties in Intramural Sports this year. Working on our
successes and failures of the past season, '69-70 should
be a very successful year. An attempt will be made to
work closer with team managers in order to run every-thing
as efficiently as possible. The teams will remain
the same, with freshman being added by their living
quarters or drafted by lottery. Falcon will retain its
homogeniety despite losing their quarters to upper
class women. However, they should be able to come up
with a bona fide cheer*in g* s ection*.
The Twins have been proving themselves to be
one of the most colorful teams in major league base-ball.
Billy Martin should be manager of the year with
all the successful tricks he's pulled. If Killebrew can
shake his slump, he should be MVP with Rod Carew
coming right Tn fact, the Twins could con-ceivably
have four of the top ten in the MVP race.
But whether th'v'll win their division, the AL pennant,
or the Series—one can't really say. They're that kind
of a ball club.
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Dean's List: Second Semester 1968-69
Who qualifies for the Dean's List? The honor rolls include all students who
carried at least twelve credit hours in academic subjects for the semester.
Anderson, Joel E.
Bergfalk, Lynn A.
Bunger, Paul C.
Carlson, Thomas M.
Chung, Simon
DeJong, Naomi W.
Dick, Rachel M.
Dupire, Carole L.
Fjeldheim, Janice L.
Goodman, Jacqueline K.
Grant, Beverly K.
Hastings, Janell E.
Johnson, Janet W.
Knapp, Beverly L.
Lundell, Muriel F.
Lundgren, John P.
Aarhus, Ruth A.
Adams, Sondra L.
Akinwale, John T.
Amundson, Deborah R.
Andersen, Sharon D.
Anderson, Barry H.
Anderson, David Iv1.
Anderson, Gaylord B.
Anderson, I. Annette
Anderson, Kathrine E.
Anderson, Keith R.
Anderson, Linda J.
Anderson, Susan M.
Atkin, Deborah L.
Atkins, Barbara L.
Bacon, Linda K.
Baker, Darla M.
Balogh, Irene A.
Bankester, Anita F.
Barnett, Melody L.
Bartholo-iew, Eleanor D.
Bergeson, Jane E.
Berglund, Linda M.
Berry, Dale A.
Berry, David E.
Blork, Lois J.
Bjorklund, Jonathan 0.
Bjorklund, Renae J.
Blomberg, Timothy M.
Bomstad, Susan M.
Boone, Robert L.
Bowers, Ines D.
Bowman, C. Kay
Boyd, Lanny A.
Brodin, Robert A.
Brown, Rebecca R.
Brumm, Fred W.
Bryan, Carolyn R.
Bryant, Robert R.
Bussiere, James 0.
Cahoon, Jane K.
Campbell, Margie C.
Campbell, Rachel A.
Carlson, Constance M.
Carlson, Douglas James
Carlson, Douglas John
Carlson, Linda M.
Carlson, Manley G.
Carlson, Peggy L.
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Marcellis, Carol A.
Newcomer, Jill M.
Nymann, Pamela G.
Olsen, Judith A.
Pilch, Gail A.
Rask, Gary E.
Reasoner, Sarah R.
Robertson, Sarah R.
Rusche, Marjorie M.
Shearer, Karol R.
Shimkus, Margery R.
Spurgeon, Sandra L.
Stocking, Thomas E.
Stump, Rebecca W.
Weinbauer, Linda C.
Wilzewske, John W.
Carlson, Terrence J.
Carpenter, Robert W.
Chase, Patricia A.
Chellberg, Joyce I.
Christenson, Jan D.
Chryst, Janet M.
Clark, Gary D.
Connors, James E.
Conway, Barbara L.
Cotton, Kathryn J.
Cowan, John H.
Creighton, Elizabeth M.
Crumrine, Carol W.
Dahlby, Carolyn M.
Danielson, Shelley A.
Danielson, Themen S.
Davies, Marilyn R.
Davies, Richard E.
Davis, Barbara A.
Oejdar, Robert J.
Delich, James R.
Dick, Marlys J.
Dow, Linda B.
Downey, Robert E.
Dragseth, Sonya C.
Dueholm, Nadine J.
Eckstrorn, Elizabeth A.
Edlund, Diane B.
Edwards, Jeane A.
Ekbom, Gregory A.
Eichorn, Vaughn W.
Elseth, Elden J.
Erickson, DeVaughn C.
Erickson, Douglas J.
Erickson, Mary E.
Erickson, Sandra J.
Ericson, Dean L.
Ericson, Gale D.
Erlandson, Shirley M.
Monica A.
Fales, Susan K.
Fall, Nancy L.
Feldman, James W.
Ferris, A. Dwight
Floberg, Cathy R.
Fomunyam, Ruby T.
Ford, Thomas A.
Freitag, Ingrid S.
Froelich, Christine J.
Fulton, James R.
Gaalswyk, Cora J.
Gabelmann, C. Kay
Gemar, Charlene
Gemar, Cheryl
Gerdin, Nancy M.
Gibson, Dean L.
Golden, Karen R.
Goodman, John D.
Goudy, Bradford J.
Grant, Joanne L.
Grant, Joyce E.
Green, Howard R.
Green, Virginia B.
Gustafson, Robert L.
Gustafson, Warren J.
Halgren, Douglas W.
Hall, Edward 0.
Hamilton, Gary E.
Hanson, Kenneth L.
Harness, Kay E.
Harris, Barbara K.
Harris, Carol A.
Healy, Mary Jo
Healy, Mildred L.
Heckman, Judith B.
He.-.!man, Pauline M.
Heikkinen, Marianne K.
Hendrickson, Ronald M.
Henry, Stephen J.
Hill, Robert M.
Hinders, Tamara L.
Hogman, A.
1--losington, Edith C.
Hopkins, John R.
Hotek, Karen L.
Hough, Sharon R.
Howard, Thomas L.
Humbert, Philip E.
Hutchings, Deborah J.
Irons, Kenneth L.
Jackson, Linda A.
Jacobson, Paulette A.
Jarp, Caroll L.
Johnson, Barbara J.
Johnson, Barbara R.
Johnson, Barbara S.
Johnson, Candice A.
Johnson, Emily L.
Johnson, Glenn D.
Johnson, James I.
Johnson, Janet A.
Johnson, Keith E.
Johnson, Roger A.
Jorgenson, Stephen H.
Kassrn, Olakunle 0.
K3:m, Patricia A.
Kern, No:man P.
King, Rudy E.
King, Ruth M.
Kleme-Iii, Gail L.
Kling, Miriam E.
Knoll, Nancy J.
Kobielush, Bruce L.
Kostelny, Naomi S.
Krause, Jon D.
Lachler, Margaret E.
Lambrides, Stephen P.
Larkin, Annice M.
Larson, John W.
Larson, Nancy R.
Lehman, Lois J.
Lehmann, Linda C.
Liew, James
Lind, Barbara J.
Lind, Donna M.
Lindaman, Rebecca A.
Linder, Liana J.
Lindman, Mary C.
Loewen, Elva K.
Loomis, Jeffrey B.
Lovgren, Linda K.
Luedtke, Janet L.
Mackey, Renee L.
Madison, Dean F.
Magnuson, James B.
Magnuson, Warren A.
Mattson, Leroy G.
Meckley, Elizabeth A.
Mick, Linda J.
Monson, Elizabeth J.
Moody, Lois E.
Morris, Kathleen A.
Morrow, Virginia A.
Mueller, Barba-a A.
Mueller, Gary H.
Musser, Dana L.
Musser, Doyle M.
Myrbo, Charles L.
McCann, Gary L.
McCarty, Dennis R.
McJunkin, Wendy L.
McLellan, Mary A.
McLeod, Hugh W.
McMurray, Sandra K.
McWafters, Jolin T.
Nelson, Daniel A.
Nelson, Daniel H.
Nelson, Darrel D.
Nelson, Elmer L.
Nelson, Judith C.
Nelson, Lydia G.
Niehouse, Carolyn R.
Nordel!, Pamela D.
Nordin, Sheryl R.
Nydegger, Carol J.
Olander, Richard C.
Olsen, Barbara L.
Olsen, Larry R.
Olson, Elaine J.
Olson, Joanne E.
Olson, Naomi H.
Pearson, Beverly J.
Pearson, Christine H.
Pearson, David C.
Pearson, Esther M.
Pearson, Lois A.
Peik, Randall S.
Person, Sharon B.
Peterson, Forrest W.
Peterson, Joel A.
Peterson, Patricia A.
Poison, Anne R .
Port, Lynette C.
Port, Nola S.
Pound, David J.
Rendahi, Dale S.
Richards, Karen B.
Richards, Nancy L.
Richardson, Lowell D.
Rodberg, Karen E.
Rodquist, David W.
Roe, Ste 'en A.
Roemor, Peter T.
Roth Kathleen K.
Sandberg, Richard J.
Sandquist, Carolyn L.
Sather, Jerome L.
Schaeffer, Barbara L.
Schaeffer, Deborah J.
Schearer, Rolland D.
Scheerer, Pamela J.
Schlaeppi, Jane L.
Schmiess, Lauren J.
Schoenfelder, Bonnie L.
Schoenherr, Janet M.
Schonbachler, Patrick J.
Schroeder, Marie C.
Seaholm, Jeanne A.
Sheppard, Carmen C.
Shupe, David A.
Siebelist, Lois E.
Sirnk:ns, Edward A.
Sitte, Murray J.
Skanse, Bonnie F.
Skon, Ronald W.
Skurdahl, Oliver P.
Smith, Elizabeth E.
Smith, Raymond F.
Smith, Stephen P.
Solstad, Priscilla J.
Sorley, Marji
Soule, Edward A.
Sparl:s, Linda A.
Staufer, Randy F.
Steinke, Judith A.
Stevens, Mary E.
Stock, Kent M.
Stoesz, James D.
Stoesz, Sharla L.
Strand, Fred C.
Sundberg, Linae M.
Swanson, Ann M.
Swanson, Cheryl L.
Swanson, Jeffrey G.
Swanson, Richard A.
Swanson, Thomas E.
Swedberg, Frederick W.
Swedberg, Merrie K.
Swenson, Beverly A.
Techman, Merle A.
Thomson, Jackie G.
Tibstra, Judith A.
Timming, Kathleen M.
Toays, Rosalyn R.
Toman, Edith E.
Torgerson, Lorna D.
Trinity, John R.
Tso, Philip L.
Tuttle, John A.
Ullberg, Janet L.
Unger, Elizabeth J.
Van Epps, Larry J.
Vangness, Peggy A.
Watson, Janet R.
Weaver, Nancy E.
Weber, Linda C.
Weller, Kenneth L.
Whennen, John E.
White, Donald R.
Wiens, Roger D.
Williams, Dennis R.
Wilson, Kennard R.
Withrow, Warren H.
Wong, Yiu Chuen
Worrell, Jo Ellen
Wright, Wanda M.
Wyma, Janice L.
Young, Beverly E.
Youngberg, Stanley E.
Youngquist, James H.
Zaffke, Maurice J.
"A" HONOR ROLL
"B" HONOR ROLL
Deat hew Sri-edema . ,
August 13, 1969
Dear Future Colleague:
Fall is rapidly approaching and with it comes college registration, and,
at Bethel College, Freshman Welcome Week. Welcome Week is a time for
you to become familiar with Bethel College, its faculty members, and a time
to meet Christian guys and gals from all over the world.
The Welcome Week staff, composed entirely of Bethel students, will be
anxiously awaiting your arrival on September 2. Our goal is to acquaint'
you with as many aspects of Bethel College as possible, and share with you
what Jesus Christ is doing in each of our lives.
The majority of activities begins on Wednesday, September 3, eight
a.m., with Orientation Conference. However, those who will be staying in
campus housing will want to arrive September 2 to settle in their residence.
There you can become acquainted with your Resident Assistant (R.A.) and
your "mother" for the year.
When you arrive, there will be placement tests, auditions, mixers, other
surprises, and a semi-formal banquet where you can meet your friends on
the faculty. Save your money, for the cost of Welcome Week will be ten
American greens. This ten dollars will cover the cost of all the activities'
that you will need to take part in.
Start preparing for Welcome Week and your year at Bethel College. We
are looking forward to seeing you.
In Him,
Bruce Otto
Welcome Week Chairman
Welcome/
WELCOME WEEK SCHEDULE
Sept. 2
Residence Halls Open-9 a.m.
Welcome Week Reception,
Bodien Lawn-3 p.m.
Parents' Program-8 p.m.
Residence Hall Orientation Programs
—8 p.m.
Sept. 3
Orientation Conference-8 a.m.
Testing
Registration
Parent's Breakfast-8:30 a.m.
Welcome Week Mixer-8 p.m.
Sept. 4
Registration
Major Area Workshops
Welcome Week Banquet-7 p.m.
Sept. 5
Activity Workshops
Sept. 6
All Day Picnic, Arden Hills Campus
Freshmen Initiation Ceremony-
7:30 p.m.
Sept. 7
Singspiration-9 p.m.
WELCOME!
One might suspect that these three coordinators
of the Welcome Week Committee (L-R, Lois Lehman,
Bruce Otto and Rich Trinity) have more up their
sleeves than distributing beanies to all the freshmen.
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Do you want to be on the staff of an All-American
newspaper? You can and you don't have to be an
Ernie Pyle or a Drew Pearson to do it. In fact,
you don't even have to be a writer at all.
Twice last year (October and April) Bethel's
Clarion was given an All-American rating in its
classification. This fall, as always, there will be posi-tions
such as reporters, editors, business manager,
proofreaders, cartoonists, and distribution and ad-vertising
people.
See any staff member or visit us in our office in
the lower level of the Administration Building.
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